Word: heavier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...airmen have located the areas of greatest danger from flying birds. The migrations follow fixed routes; the heaviest traffic is up & down the Mississippi-Missouri Valley. Duck strikes are most frequent, but flyers do not fear them as much as certain heavier birds. A 15-lb. goose, flying at 50 m.p.h., colliding head on with a 200-m.p.h. plane, can do formidable damage...
Larsen joined the R.C.M.P., not to be a policeman but to become an Arctic mariner for the force. His ship, the St. Roch, was specially built for Arctic voyaging. A diesel-powered schooner, she was built of timbers two-thirds heavier than those used in any ordinary craft. Her hull is sheathed in Australian ironbark-the only wood that can stand the grinding pressure of the pack...
...Britain's peers understand one prerequisite for those who would rule a democratic empire-they know how to die for it. Of all England's foreign wars, World War I took the heaviest toll of blue blood. World War II's toll may be even heavier...
...British and Canadian commanders balanced the civilians' lives against the loss of time in capturing Dunkirk and putting it to Allied use as a supply port. The civilians' lives weighed heavier in the scale...
...constant reliance upon large-scale Government spending . . . with heavier taxes, deficits . . . and perhaps increased competition with private business is not consistent with . . . our competitive system. Public works must be supplementary to the effort of the people...