Word: heavier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...already bombed the city. Heavier raids are yet to come and Singapore is not ready for them. Its clammy soil is too wet for underground shelters, so, if raids get too bad, plans have been made to evacuate 200,000 Chinese and Malays to crudely built dormitory huts in the uninhabited wooded spaces of the island. For those who cannot be evacuated, there are some private concrete shelters and modern buildings, which can offer protection. For those who can find nothing better, there are the city's two-to 20-feet-deep concrete drainage ditches...
Until Globe American submitted its plans, there was no standard U.S. lifeboat; until it began assembly-line production, lifeboats were built at small, coastal shipyards, usually of wood. Into each of Globe American's boats goes one and a half tons of sheet steel. Heavier than wood, less buoyant, air tanks and kapok nevertheless make Globe boats unsinkable...
Kathleen (Metro -Goldwyn -Mayer) brings back to the screen Shirley Temple, now almost 13, an inch and a half taller, ten pounds heavier since her retirement almost two years ago. The dimpled little actress, who has made about $2,000,000 for herself in her nine screen years, has become an appealing young lady of quiet charm and impressive assurance...
...eyed at Borneo's wealth and military secrets. Last week the Japanese had not yet made their all-out assault on Borneo. The preliminary landings were designed mainly to secure the southeastern rim of the China Sea, insuring communications with Indo-China, Thailand, Malaya. The Dutch expect a heavier blow...
Colonel Stanley's steel-and-rubber bridge carries a heavier load than old-style pontoons, has fewer parts, packs into five-sixths the space. Its pontoons are inflated to a pressure of only one pound to the square inch, are slow to collapse when punctured...