Word: ib
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...third day, but the 106-man shooting line for the 1937 men's championship. In this grueling three-day event, each contestant fired 468 arrows at distances from 40 to 100 yards (two York and two American rounds). Each shot was the equivalent of lifting 44 to 52 Ib.-average "weight" or pull of a longbow-holding it at arm's length for 15 or 20 sec. Fatigue and nervousness often cause '"archer's freeze" which paralyzes the bowman's arm, prevents him from lifting it to the point of aim. Immunity to "archer...
Bigger than the medical staff was the kitchen staff: 250 chefs in 25 big kitchen tents had the job of frying 100,000 flapjacks for breakfast, of coping with 30,000 quarts of milk, 70,000 eggs, two tons of sugar, 13,000 Ib. of meat delivered every morning and serving it more or less hot to over 800 mess tents. Telephone connections and mail deliveries to the camp sites had to be organized on a similar scale...
...burn it in big, grey-green mounds. Since 1931 Brazil's National Coffee Department has sent $250,000,000 worth of Brazil's chief crop up in smoke. Last week the Department, estimating that the year's bumper crop of 26,000,000 sacks (132.2 Ib. apiece) would leave a 10,000,000-sack surplus to add to the accumulation already on hand, announced that this year it would buy 70% of the crop to burn. Daily burning quota will go up from 60,000 to 100,000 sacks, daily cost to Government and growers...
...last week had got his hands on specimens from 77 different meteoritic falls. He pays what he considers a fair price to landowners on whose property meteorites are discovered, whether they are aware or not of the scientific value of the prize. His usual price is $1 per Ib., but he may pay much more than that for unusually fine specimens. He has supplied meteorites to the Smithsonian Institution, Harvard University, Chicago's Field Museum, Manhattan's American Museum, museums in Mexico, England, France, Czechoslovakia...
Last week Dr. Nininger learnedly described operations on a meteoritic site in Kiowa County. Kansas, which he believes to be the world's first complete excavation of a meteorite crater. Some 300,000 separate fragments were recovered there, ranging from 85 Ib. down to tiny grains. Assistant Secretary of the Society for Research on Meteorites is Dr. Nininger's wife, Addie Delp Nininger...