Word: heavier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although the traveling layoff bodes no good for the Bolles' sweepswingers, the entire Seattle entry list is aboard the train and forced to accept the same conditioning hazard. For this reason, prior physical conditioning will play a heavier role than usual; and before entraining, Bolles happily stated that his boys were in tip-top shape...
...Government's expenses are still heavy, may become heavier. The nation is confronted with "great responsibilities for international relief and rehabilitation . . . many uncertainties...
Record High. Volume of consumer credit reached a new U.S. peak at the end of April, the Federal Reserve Board reported. April's increase of $207,000,000, due largely to heavier installment buying, brought the total to $10,256,000,000. That was $149,000,000 above the previous peak in 1941, more than double the wartime low of $4,835,000,000 in February...
...retired and fastidious professor than the politician he is. At dinner, in accordance with the ceremonial niceties of cheng, he likes to discourse on the threefold appeal of Chinese cuisine-color, for the eye; smell, for the nostrils; taste, for the tongue. He is getting plump, is 20 pounds heavier than when he battled Communists. He is a family man. Recently, while his hospitable, bespectacled wife and four sprouting children looked on, Chen displayed a bit of simple Western technology he had learned. Puffing a bit, he showed them how to roller-skate on shiny contraptions just arrived from...
...Herbert Hoover lives quietly for most of the year in Manhattan's Waldorf Towers. His wife died three years ago. His hair is a little thinner, his face a little heavier, his stiff collars a little lower. He has given up all his business directorships, spends much of his time collecting historical records for Stanford University's Hoover Library of War, Revolution and Peace. Last February he made an exhausting, 6,000-mile trip to survey Europe's food needs...