Word: heavier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outstanding heavyweights on this year's squad are Spencer Howe '38 and Pete Cable '37. Howe, who tips the scales at 195 pounds, won his berth by his brilliant victory against Virginia last year. Ten pounds heavier than Howe, Cable has been a letterman for two years...
...Inventor Mason began to experiment with methods of forming and pressing his pulp. Once when he went to lunch he left a wet slab on a hot press, hurried back, when he remembered, to remove it. Meantime a cranky steam valve had permitted the press to grow hotter and heavier with the result that Inventor Mason found, instead of a fibrous board, a dense, grainless, rigid sheet of material, which, in its present refined form of "Presdwood," accounts for 70% of Masonite's business. The other 30% is in fibre insulating board...
...this game, sloppy as it was, had its encouraging side. The Providence contingent was by no means a poor team, and outweighed the Jayvees almost man for man. Against this heavier opponent, Coach Art Lane was able to field a combination that waged many sustained marches and were able to keep the fight in enemy territory for the majority of the game. With the development of a few power plays with which to push over those last few yards, this outfit should develop into a scoring team before the end of the season...
...head of the batting order instead of his usual position of 4th, made arrangements to have him whisked back to his sick bed as soon as he could contrive to be put out. To his dismay, Gehrig got a hit. Since his string began Gehrig has grown 20 lb. heavier, increased his yearly income from $3,000 to $30,000, married, replaced Babe Ruth, his onetime coach, as baseball's No. 1 home run hitter (49 this year). He now claims to dislike his record, says he wants a holiday...
...Whites still held the Alcázar, asked whether he should shell it. On Aug. 4 tentatively and one by one at intervals Reds popped 60 4-in. shells at the Alcázar without result, telephoned into the fortress to tell Commandant Moscardó: "We warn you heavier shells will come." On Aug. 11 cadets shot a cavalry mount for meat and mobsters standing at a safe distance shrieked at the military academy: "You fools! Why don't you surrender...