Word: heavier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...defeated George Creel, a liberal Democrat backed by the McAdoo machine, by a 3-to-2 plurality. The greatest Sinclair strength was developed in and around Los Angeles, home of Aimee Semple McPherson, Cecil B. DeMille and Utopia, Inc. At the same time the Republicans nominated by an even heavier plurality a thoroughgoing conservative, Acting Governor Frank F. Merriam. Inevitable result: California's November election will be fought not on party lines but on the issue of economic radicalism and experimentation. That issue definitely jeopardizes the Democrats' chance of carrying the State, for if those Democrats who voted for Creel...
...time this was accomplished it was early morning of the fourth day and the fight that had ended was the longest (by 42 hours) on record between man and fish. When Angler Howell reached shore he weighed his catch. Its 792 lb. were 34 lb. heavier than the record Nova Scotia tuna caught by Novelist Zane Grey in 1929, 6 lb. lighter than the world's record rod and reel tuna caught by Colonel E. T. Peel off Scarborough, England, two years...
...that hurt their consciences, and 40% thought there was too much politics in school work. Happy teachers, on the other hand, were more religious, less troubled by conscience and politics. More of them than of the malcontents were married.. And they averaged 7½ years older, 10 Ib. heavier...
Organized in Los Angeles last January. The Utopian Society purports "to give people economic education." Its aims include: 1) Tax reform, with heavier burden on the rich. 2) All persons to be educated until they are 25, work from 25 to 45, then retire. 3) Workers to be paid in nontransferable "units of buying power." Membership is highly secret, members being designated by number. Headquarters claims 200,000 members in 15 major cities and 400 towns. Initiation fee is $3; dues of 10? a month are expected if the member can pay. Neophytes pass through a series of mysterious "cycles...
...elements Professor Fermi played with last spring was uranium. Uranium, discovered in 1789, is the mother stuff of radium, and the heaviest element on earth (twice as heavy as tin). Astronomers believe that elements heavier than uranium must exist in the interior of the sun. Geologists admit that perhaps near the core of the earth may be something heavier than uranium. But there certainly has been none anywhere near the earth's surface where man can lay his hands on it-until possibly last week...