Word: featherweight
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...building a featherweight, superstrength, welded steel structure is growing at a tremendous rate. It is my prediction that all future commercial planes and most military planes will be made of welded steel...
Captain Bob Froude, a comparative featherweight at 175 pounds, gets the starting honors at left end, but the next man that comes in, Bob Zoeller, is the man to watch. Their favorite pass receiver, he also tosses a mean block. He wiped out Cornell's Stoffer to set up one of last week's touchdowns...
...born on the Bowery of poor parents, had earned his own living in a variety of ways since he was eleven years old. He was 26 when'he made himself manager of Featherweight Terry McGovern, who presently made himself world champion and made Sam moderately wealthy. Sam bought some race horses. The horses ran out of the money so often that Sam finally traded them for a bulldog: and concentrated on the theater for the rest of his life...
Last week at the Diamond Horseshoe, Mae Murray again began dancing the Merry Widow waltz, with Georges Fontana of the sleek '20s dancing team of Moss & Fontana. The featherweight toast of the 1908 Follies has long since moved into the middleweight division, but as she swooped, swirled and was flung through the air the house came down, and Billy Rose knew that he had a waltzing hit and the nostalgic smash of his career...
Sick Leader. That inveterate hypochondriac, Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye, still lay abed with the "cold" he caught two weeks ago-a good deal less sick than his 100,000,000 people in featherweight houses had begun to feel. Bed was no place for the Premier at a time like this, and the influential Tokyo Asahi was only echoing the growing concern of the country when it came out and told Prince Konoye so. In the frankest piece of criticism a newspaper has directed at the Premier since he became head of the Government, Asahi said...