Word: heavier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chicago last week it looked as if business-baiting would play a heavier role in the 1956 election campaign than in any presidential race since the 19305. But U.S. businessmen as a group gave little evidence of apprehension or even of quickened interest in politics. In Boston and Seattle, Republican committeemen reported that substantially fewer businessmen had volunteered for electioneering duty than in 1952. The same was true in Pittsburgh, where one industrialist explained: "Everyone figures Ike is a shoo-in. The same old warhorses are still the active ones in both parties...
...flatly contradictory: one school held that the swimmer should hold still and keep quiet; the other said churn wildly and shout. During World War II thousands of seamen and downed airmen came within reach of the shark's sinister jaws. With air traffic over open water becoming heavier every day, the U.S. Air University painstakingly collected the reports of survivors, has issued a manual called Airmen Against the Sea. Included is an elaborately documented and knowledgeable report on the shark's way with a man in the water. Only 38 of the 2,500 survivors examined mentioned actual...
Grote computed the average heights and weights of National Leaguers of 1956 and those of 1936. He found that the composite first baseman today is 6 ft. 2½ in. tall and weighs 203 Ibs., 3 in. taller and 24 Ibs. heavier than the oldtimers. Third basemen are 2 in. taller and 18 Ibs. heavier than those of 20 years ago. Outfielders average 20 Ibs. heavier. Scientists have long known that each generation of Americans is larger than its predecessor, but the trend to larger, stronger ballplayers is not merely the result of genetics and good diet. Choke batters like...
According to Stair's theory, tektites came from the lost planet too. He thinks that on its surface was light, glassy material that had separated like cream as the heavier metal and rock sank toward the center of the planet. This separation may have happened on the earth too, but water erosion destroyed the glass...
...varsity race, Love said that the Eli crew is probably the best Yale boat he has ever seen. He added, however, that one of his main hopes for victory is that the oarsmen in the middle of the Eli crew who are heavier than Harvard's, will get tired during the course of the race, and that their slide work will be poor...