Word: heavier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...synthetic fuel she produces. In synthesis, it is easiest to produce gasoline (composed of lighter, simpler molecules), harder to produce fuel oil, hardest to produce lubricating oils and greases. For this reason, while Germany is moderately well off for gasoline, she is thought to be desperately short of the heavier oils. This would explain her eagerness to lay hands on every possible field of natural petroleum...
Champion Max Baer. Baby Baer, a 237-Ib. giant who towers 6 ft. 6½ in., is 35 Ib. heavier and 5½ inches taller than Joe Louis. But he went into the ring a 10-to-1 underdog...
...present crisis, the full tides of emergency has struck sharply at the Foreign Service and a heavier load in being assigned to the "Juniors" in the department. When they are placed in positions of responsibility, they must immediately make good or else be removed from their posts...
Businessmen are so strong for a balanced budget that they raised little audible protest over the higher taxes on business when the news came out. Last February executives voted more than 2 to 1 in the FORTUNE Forum for heavier taxation, even though they were warned that business would have to pay most of the bill. But the Treasury's tax plan is almost the exact opposite of the program advanced by the management men-a program whose No. 1 and No. 2 planks were a lowering of income-tax exemptions, and a general sales...
Naturally enough, Harvard's name, sake is far superior to Yale's in every department. It is slightly larger and heavier, has a celling 6000 feet higher, has 70 horsepower more, and is 36 miles an hour faster than the Yale brand. Furthermore, the Harvard wheels are retractable, whereas the Eli underpinning is rigid...