Word: heavier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Henry Thompson form the second best due that Hodder can send up to the firing line. Barr is rather light but makes up for it with a steady all-round game. It any one part of his game stands out from the rest, it is his putting. Thompson in heavier and longer off the tee, but again his main forte is consistency...
Admiral William Daniel Leahy let Congress, and the world, know that the U. S. Navy plans to build two 45,000-ton, 880-foot battleships. They will be 10,000 tons heavier, 130 feet longer, and better armed by three guns than any of the six battleships now being built for the U. S. Fleet. They will be bigger even than the two 42,000-tonners which Britain has laid down. And as the President explained at a press conference, Japan is reportedly building three ships of around 42,000 tons, refuses to tell other powers just what size they...
Most military photographs that cross the sea from Germany represent death-dealers-heavier bombs, bigger Berthas, faster Heinkels. Most military pictures that cross from France and Britain represent life-savers-slicker gas masks, thicker walls, deeper holes. Last week, straight from a Hounslow, Middlesex, firm with the reassuring name of Concrete, Ltd., came some examples of British ARP (Air Raid Precautions) art which would gladden the heart of any wisely defensive ostrich...
...shakeup in the lineup has occurred in the heavier weights. It was caused by the fact that lanky "Bunny" Barnes has gained about ten pounds, throwing him out of the 155 pound class to wrestle in a heavier weight. Pete Illman, captain of his freshman team, will fill the weight Barnes has left. Bill Daughaday defeated Barnes in a trial match and Barnes defeated Tudor Gardiner which leaves the 165 and 175 pound weights to be decided between Barnes and Daughaday. Boston will as usual wrestle unlimited, with Gardiner as alternate...
...money-making product), leaves refiners with a great bulk of fuel oil and other by-products to dispose of. Phillips Petroleum Co. has lately found a way to convert some of these by-products into gasoline-through polymerization, which compresses wasted gaseous fractions of crude oil into the heavier molecules of gasoline...