Word: heavier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With their mechanized equipment, their heavier and more numerous artillery and their larger number of troops, the Italians naturally stuck to the roads, and the roads run through the valleys and the passes. General Papagos made use of the mountains by moving along the heights to outflank the Italians. His infantry, composed of mountaineers - all Greece is mountainous - knew exactly how to get through hills. Everything fitted...
...turn again and the most massive night at 20 tack yet launched upon the capital poured down another five or six hundred tons of death. Only a providential overcast prevented this happening to London two nights in a row. Although London's antiaircraft defense is far heavier than any other British city's, Luftwaffe was apparently ordered and geared to shoot the works...
Almost everyone knows that U. S. college freshmen have grown taller and heavier for a long time. The increase goes back 80 or 90 years, shows an inch of stature gain for each of four generations. Girls have grown longer-legged, bigger-waisted, smaller-hipped. They also have reached puberty earlier, a sign of faster growth...
...count it appeared that there would be over 20,000,000 votes for Willkie and most of them were undoubtedly votes against Roosevelt. Besides a great victory Roosevelt also had the greatest vote of no confidence that any President ever received. On Franklin Roosevelt's brow rested something heavier than the laurels of political victory: on his big bland forehead lay a responsibility greater than any President's since Abraham Lincoln. Like Lincoln, he could and must quote Scripture: "A house divided against itself cannot stand...
Pressing him hard is John Koslowski, a Governor Dummer graduate. Only recently recovered from a head injury he received last year, he is faster and heavier than Norton and may possibly be a better quarterback. The team has not been run too smartly so far. Walth Anderson is the third string replacement...