Word: heavier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...People with telephones used the radio 44% less than those without. The heavier radio use in homes without telephones varied from 19% on Sundays to 45% on weekdays, 62% on Saturdays...
...Allied drive was stopped. Heavier Axis troops, operating from closer bases, had stopped it 15 miles short of its goal. The battle seesawed for a few days, broke up into sanguinary, local engagements. Torrential rains poured onto Tunisia, turning mountain roads into mires, disrupting Allied supply. There was nothing to do but fall back from Tébourba into the most available positions. The gamble was lost...
...Luftwaffe dominated the grey, dripping skies. There were disquieting reports that the Axis, pouring in airborne reinforcements from Italy, had gained numerical superiority along the fighting front. On the heights overlooking Mateur and Madjez-el Bab, Anderson's lightly armed advanced troops grimly hung on and waited for heavier troops to crawl...
...Cliffe, has failed to notice the Class of '46, No one knows quite why, but they're more attractive, noisier, more lively than genus Radcliffe is wont to be. Probably it doesn't prove anything, but this year's average Freshman is 3 inches taller and 1.6 pounds heavier than last season's. That makes here not five by five, as many claim, but 5 foot 5.2 inches tall and 127.7 pounds wide. One reason for the change may be that lack of transportation has kept Boston area girls in the Boston area, where they belong, but this view...
...Heavier German resistance in battles of mounting ferocity on both of the main fighting fronts was acknowledged by the high command while reporting steady Red Army advances in most sectors, which announced that in some areas southwest of Stalingrad the Soviet troops were engaged in fortifying their occupied positions...