Word: weighing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...consider a successful football team superfluous for Harvard. It is a requirement of dignity and competence to do well what we undertake to do in whatever department. If the Admissions Office wants to weigh football ability more heavily, or the Dean's Office equate so many hours of practice with a B or an A, there will then be a larger number of football players eligible for scholarships. But the phrasing of the questions in your poll leaves no alternatives besides letting down the football team and sacrificing the integrity of the scholarship programme. Wolfgang Hallo...
...interested. The advertisers have probably gone out of business, but those that remain will be interested to see what they were selling in 1946, and will no doubt be stimulated to advertise in later yearbooks by this display of kept bargains. The Corporation will have a chance to weigh the Album in one hand against the stub of a $5000 check in the other...
...delight. Despite civil war on the mainland and the Nationalist blockade of China's coast, Hong Kong's trade this year may reach an alltime high. Daily, British and American ships slip into Hong Kong's harbor; nightly, huge motor junks, heavy with Western merchandise, weigh anchor for the ports of Red China...
...invite you to weigh the alternative . . . The vicious cycle of economic nationalism would again be set in motion., The consequences would be the cumulative narrowing of markets, the further growth of high-cost protected industries, the mushrooming of restrictive controls, and the shrinkage of trade into the primitive pattern of bilateral barter." Stated positively, only by. integration could Europe get a home market big enough to support efficient mass production...
...foundation's purpose, Fuller says, is to explore "the borderline areas of technology . . . that industry cannot undertake. Bucky believes his researches into the structure of such things as crystals, stars and atoms will result in brand-new principles of building construction. Present-day houses weigh about 22 Ibs. per cubic ft.; Bucky has plans for a new house he calls "Geodesic" which he hopes will weigh only 1 Ib. per 50 cubic ft. If this one turns out to be practical, no one will ever again chuckle at Bucky's dreams...