Word: heavier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Senators were impressed. Navymen loaded their guns with heavier, angrier words...
Artificial legs, though often heavier than they should be, are less complicated than arms and hence generally more satisfactory.* But the overall fact is that modern prostheses (artificial limbs) are uncomfortable, ungainly, ugly. After months of operations and fitting, most amputees are disappointed...
...three years after Pearl Harbor, the U.P. spent $278,000,000. It bought 2,270 new cars, 136 locomotives. It laid 1,680 miles of heavier rail to carry the oversize freight trains that Jeffers knew were on the way. Though one of the U.P.'s fondest boasts is that its roadbed is better laid and better kept than any other road's in the U.S., it rebuilt hundreds of miles of roadbed. For the steep grades over the Great Divide it developed the world's biggest locomotive...
...which will fire any type of shell-including phosphorous-has the accuracy of an M-1 Garand rifle, a maximum range of 2½ miles. A heavier (110-lb.) kickless gun also in service is the 75 mm., which is fired from a tripod no heavier than a machine-gun mount and has a range of more than four miles. The Army's most mobile artillery weapon was formerly the 75-mm. pack howitzer, weighing about...
...male shape shows a similar trend: U.S. men are growing taller and heavier, have broader shoulders and narrower hips than their grandfathers of the 1890s. Anthropologist Shapiro believes there must be something in the American environment that produces tall men & women; the average U.S. height is now greater than that of any European country from which the U.S. people originally came...