Word: heavier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...June 1934 a distinguished Italian audience, including King Vittorio Emanuele, was told that Professor Enrico Fermi, theoretical and experimental physicist of the University of Rome, had artificially created a chemical element heavier than uranium...
Although the uranium atom was the most massive in the standard table of 92 elements, there was no theoretical reason why heavier elements should not exist...
Higher compression translates into more efficient operation because it gets greater power punch on less fuel. It also necessitates a stronger and heavier motor to absorb the increased shock. For this reason, and because Diesels have not yet reached the mass production stage, they are costly. A Ford truck gasoline motor, for example, costs about $150, a comparable Diesel about...
...scrimmaged on Tuesday for the first time in three weeks, Harlow thought one day sufficient considering that the team took nearly the battering against the Indians last week that it did against Cornell and Army. A rugged scrimmage on the dummy machines, however, on took the place of the heavier contact work...
...sabre-rattling" (see p. 63), comparing them to the bad boys of European politics in a way that might have provoked protests from "friendly nations," the "spokesman" reappeared. He also touched on taxes. It was deliberate distortion, he said, for Administration critics to say that Federal taxes are heavier than they were two, three, five years...