Word: heavier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yale's Charles Seymour: "Whatever the outcome, it is certain that in the future a heavier responsibility will rest upon the United States for the preservation and the fostering of the things most precious to a university - the things of the mind, of the spirit, of beauty, individual freedom, intellectual power...
...been the chief agenda. French mobilization was announced as having been finally completed (after 17 days of war), with 3,500,000 men under arms in a zone 15 to 30 miles deep behind the Maginot Line. Artillery pounding, mostly by night to escape the eyes of aviation, grew heavier and heavier. Also heavier grew the atmosphere of suspense as the Allies watched corresponding mobilization behind the Westwall...
...reported severe German counterattacks on the Blies Valley salient to relieve French pressure on Zweibrücken. A mass of fast light German tanks was said to have been smashed up at the French wire by anti-tank fire, the wreckage of 20 of them blocking the passage of heavier German tanks. German counterattacks in the Bienwald east of Bitche were evidently more successful. At the northwest end of the line, the French advance from Perl in the direction of Trier progressed yard by yard. Then, this week, along the 80-mile Rhine front from Lauterbourg to Basle, the guns...
...President Albert Lebrun of France. >Great Britain's Cardinal Kinsley told nuns they might wear headdresses that fitted over gas masks, recommended "a simplified form . . . consisting of: 1) an unstarched, tight-fitting cap or snugly fitting under-veil, over which the respirator could easily be adjusted, 2) a heavier outer-veil which could be pulled back over the head harness of the respirator when the latter is in use." >Canceled was the Salvation Army's farewell party in London's Earl's Court to General Evangeline Booth, for which 25,000 tickets had been sold...
...Eastern with a bold proposition: let them finance a common plane that would standardize equipment. Such a plane he foresaw as the DC-4. It would carry 42 passengers, four engines, travel at 240 m.p.h. Six months later the Big Five contracted not to invest in any transport heavier than 43,500 lbs. other than the DC-4. Each company could then be dealt one apiece for as many rounds as they mutually agreed upon. If, however, none spoke up, United would get the first off the assembly line...