Word: heavier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over the world is keener than ever before. Undoubtedly this is a good thing in principle. But just as hurried and ill considered action in passing the NIRA has left its trail of troubles within the nation, so between nations, can poor understanding of the armament issues leave still heavier sears...
...squadron to form single line of battle. H. M. S. Renown, leading the second column, swung sharply inward. The Hood continued stubbornly on her course. Amid warning siren hoots, the two ships crashed together. No one was injured but Renown limped to Gibraltar for temporary repairs. The heavier Hood suffered $40,000 damages. Who was to blame...
Steel is proverbially the heaviest of heavy industry but even heavier is that part of the machinery industry which makes the thunderous tools for the steelmakers-blooming mills, slabbing mills, rail mills, tube mills, hydraulic shears, hot saws, cooling beds, forging presses, pickling equipment, etc., etc. Companies like Westinghouse and General Electric share hugely in the construction of steel mills, for almost all steelmaking machinery in electrically operated, but the machinery itself is produced by highly specialized concerns. And in this subcellar of a steel civilization are two companies that together supply most of the biggest and toughest machinery made...
...outside the realm of j possibility. According to Jerome Clarke Hunsaker, Mechanical Engineering department head at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a member of the Federal Aviation Commission (see above), there have been several cases of balloons being struck by lightning and a few cases of minor damage to heavier-than-air craft. But, says that onetime naval commander, "the probability of serious effect of lightning on modern metal airplanes is extremely remote because of sharp points permitting the charge to drain off." According to Secretary Lester Durand Gardner of the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences, which held its third...
...University has little space at its disposal, we would not be justified in assigning so large a building as Hemenway Gymnasium to the commuters, for their demands are not sufficient to warrant their occupying the whole space." He also said that the running expenses of Hemenway Gymnasium would be heavier than the non-residents could pay. There is a possibility that the old gym may be given to the Freshmen for the squash courts, thus relieving the pressure at Linden Street...