Word: lighter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...size court, are pretty much the same game, a foreshortened variety of racquets with not so much breakage. Courts can be built for as low as $3,000. Squash racquets is played with a shorter, sturdier variety of racquets bat. The ball looks about like a handball but is lighter...
...lapses into a "toity-toid street" accent, ostensibly for lightness, does little credit to Shakespeare's blank verse. John Emery, as Hotspur, has great vitality, but often he palls in tearing his passions to tatters. Morris Ankrum as Henry IV gives a sterling performance throughout, and outstanding in the lighter vein are Gus Schilling, as Bardolph, and John Berry, as Poins...
...present relative standing in battleships and aircraft carriers, continue its cruiser and destroyer construction program, sharply accelerate its aircraft and submarine program, step up its aircraft procurement to 500 planes per year. Object: to stay just behind Great Britain in heavy categories, come well up with the authoritarians in lighter ships. The job of building ships is therefore highly important to the U. S. Navy, equally important to the U. S. citizens who must pay the bills now or later. This job belongs to Charles Edison, eldest son of the late Thomas Edison's second marriage and Assistant Secretary...
...what's this? Water getting lighter, lighter; sunshine streaming through. A whole school of happy, normal-looking fish frolic past, inviting, luring, beckoning with their tails. A svelt mermaid wriggles by. Vag thaws a bit. Lighter and lighter. Then the upward motion stops, and the water drains off the window for the first time in a month. Heavy wrenches clatter against the door bolts. It loosens. A whisper of new air comes in. A whisper, then a hiss, a roar...
Most present oil refining is done by thermal cracking-breaking crude oil's heavy molecules into lighter components by great pressure and heat. This process yields only 44% gasoline (the money-making product), leaves refiners with a great bulk of fuel oil and other by-products to dispose of. Phillips Petroleum Co. has lately found a way to convert some of these by-products into gasoline-through polymerization, which compresses wasted gaseous fractions of crude oil into the heavier molecules of gasoline...