Word: weighed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mean that every question that comes up should be decided summarily on the spur of the moment. Weigh your evidence well, decide carefully and deliberately, but when you have made up your mind, then...
...consider Coach Heisman's plan: the proposed rule being passed, a football team must play opponents in the same class, say 158 to 175 pounds; and every man of the team must weigh in, as in boxing, between these figures. The guards and backfield would tip the scales alike. Such a plan, needless to say, would simply do away with football as it is played today. The game might be played under conditions that appeared more equal, but the tactics would change; and as for a college possessing teams in assorted sizes,--well, all that is not football...
...personal selfishness, because it is more insidious, and wears the garb of something more noble than a mere personal aim. Although men are by nature gregarious creatures, they should not,--like sheep,--move under the simple impulse of the mass. Man has the ability to think for himself, to weigh reasons, to forecast in some degree the future, and to reflect upon the consequences of his acts. In times like these it is of vital import that his responsibility for his individual opinions should be relentlessly asserted...
...shoulders weigh with care...
...giving all herself, she finds that to her have been given the keys which open up the doors of life. Bravely she walks, through them, bravely faces the world that would condemn her, and bravely with full heart takes up the burden which, though it weigh her down, yet makes her stand the straighter...