Word: heavier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Univac's mistaken idea that a Democratic sweep was in the making, Collingwood thinks it resulted from the fact that the first two states to report-Delaware and Connecticut-showed a heavier Democratic vote than was true of the national scene. Explains Collingwood, defensively: "After all, Univac is only human-that is, it can only make predictions based on the material that humans feed into it." Collingwood asked an attendant mathematician if he could explain what went wrong, and got the Einsteinian answer: "It may be in the taxability of the K factor...
...that his son should learn the manly art at an early age. Stephen was chosen to be a sparring partner by his school boxing instructor who was appointed to teach Prince Charles. Stephen, a 45-pounder who is boxing champion of his age group at school, is five pounds heavier than his opponent...
...Tepper, the thing for tornado predictors to watch for is a "pressure jump." When conditions are right, as they all too frequently are in tornado regions, the air contains an "inversion," a layer whose temperature is sharply different from the air above or below it. Since cold air is heavier than warm air, the boundary between the layers may have "gravity waves" in it, just as the ocean has waves in the boundary between water...
Heezen believes that they are the flood plains and deltas of "turbidity currents": rivers of mud, heavier than clear water, that coursed intermittently down the slopes of the continents and deposited their sediment far out on the bottom of the ocean. Most of the sediment, he thinks, was carried down in remote geological ages. The turbidity currents probably started near land. They cut deep gorges (e.g., the famous Hudson Canyon) in the continental slopes and dumped their silt and sand in deep basins in the irregular ocean bottom. When the nearest basin was full, the mud-river ran across...
...merging, they hoped to eliminate costly duplication, pool their resources for a heavier peacetime volume, and show a profit. The big danger spot in the deal was the termination contracts the unions (Slick's independent pilots' and mechanics' unions, the Tiger locals of the pilots' A.F.L. union and independent mechanics' union) demanded for men lopped off the payroll as a result of the merger. The deal ordered by CAB: a year's salary, or 60% of it for four years. Says Prescott: "We believed that if the volume of business held up there would...