Word: heavier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sand-colored marble palace in Athens, a short (5 ft. 2 in.), stiff-backed gentleman was having a lonely lunch of a simple entree and fruit. George of Schles-wig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg, King of the Hellenes, was suffering from a stomach ulcer, and a heavier meal, combined with all his worries about his realm, would have been inadvisable...
...kind of people who like to remember, while peering darkly into a glass, the last time they saw Paris. The baby spotlights focused down on a singer whose face was familiar. It looked a little older now, and the figure-despite the best efforts of Parisian couturiers-was perceptibly heavier. But when Lucienne Boyer began a husky-voiced singing of her old theme song, Parlez-moi &'Amour, it was almost like old times...
Coached by wily old Gus Peterson, Columbia always has a capable grappling team if not a balanced one, and this year seems to follow the rules of history. Like the Crimson, the Lions are weak in the lighter classes and strong in the heavier ones with O'Shaughnessy and Horvath in the 175-pound class their strongest positions...
...over a fighting, well-conditioned Crimson squad Saturday afternoon before a capacity crowd in the Indoor Athletic Building. Forced to give away five points in the 121-pound class by default, the varsity handed the Cadets an early lead which they only partially made up in the heavier weights...
...Germany, proffered an alluring theory to explain it. According to Wegener, the interior of the earth is a thick, hot, plastic substance. The continents, in large part comparatively light granite, float on it like icebergs. Under the oceans, the earth's crust is largely basalt, which is heavier than granite and inclined to sink...