Word: heavier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Speers. One morning last week the Times headlined a dispatch from Mr. Speers: VAST SECRET FLEET IN JA PAN REPORTED. The story reported what has long been on public record: that Japan is building three to four big battleships, somewhere between 7,000 and 12,000 tons heavier than the biggest (33,400 tons) in the U. S. Navy. The news in Lem Speers's yarn was that Japan had speeded up construction of its giants, that "the Japanese battleship program may include eight and possibly twelve such craft." Trusting the British to police the Atlantic for them...
...record salesman, any music store clerk can tell you that the Beethoven Fifth Symphony is exceeded only by the Tschaikovsky "Nutcracker Suite" and a few others in public knowledge and esteem. The "Fifth" is probably the best known of the so-called "heavier" classical works. The four notes which announce the first theme of the symphony are as familiar to the general public as any other (not excepting "Our Love" and "Moon Love...
...lack of confidence. Ray Stone lost a fairly close decision to his Soldier Boy opponent. Harvard had won the meet before Duncan Longcope's final match. so he was not in the best psychological position to win a close fight. After a hard match against a stronger and heavier rival, he dropped a decision to the Cadets...
...projectiles came over in twos, threes and fours (indicating four to six guns) at intervals of ten minutes to half an hour. At first they blew craters three feet deep in the frozen ground. Later, the craters increased to six feet deep, 18 feet across, as heavier explosive charges were used. Their military effect was nil and Viipuri's small remaining population soon got over the psychological effect...
...rails (Budd 300). As its basic material Pullman alternates between aluminum alloy, which has about the same strength as stainless, and Cor-Ten, U. S. Steel's patented alloy. Cor-Ten's elastic strength is only about twice carbon steel's, and Cor-Ten cars are heavier than stainless or aluminum, but Pullman's steel cost is much lower than Budd's. Cor-Ten cars are spot-welded, but since aluminum cannot be structurally welded, Pullman does a sleek riveting...