Word: lighter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Huskies feature center Jim Bell of Waltham and watchcharm defenseman Frank Bell (no relation) who tips the scales at a mean 150 pounds. Coach Herb Gallagher shares Johnny Chase's problems at defense and had to move the lighter Bell from the forward post at which he excelled...
Frank P. Scully, Jr. '51 missed out on a gold cigarette lighter by four points yesterday, as Fred Blatt of M.I.T. took individual sailing honors in the first Intercollegiate Invititation Frostbite Regatta on the Potomac River...
...Gradually, through the swelling roar, people realized that they were seeing a Joe Louis who had lost his stuff. Once he had used a deadly counterpunch as his best defense. Now, his reflexes were too slow. In the ninth, he had his best round, slugging it out with his lighter (by 16½ lbs.) foe. But Jersey Joe Walcott, backed into the ropes, took it all, and gave something in return...
Every airminded schoolboy has wondered why airliners do not refuel from flying tankers. The advantages (longer range, lighter takeoff, bigger payload) are obvious. Today an airliner labors off the ground carrying fuel for the whole flight, though it will not need most of it for the first thousand miles...
Across the Stadium, the Jayvee soccer team ran through a slightly lighter workout in preparation for their game today against a combination Jayvee-Freshman outfit from M.I.T. at the Engineers field. However, the Varsity scrimmaged as usual as Coach MacDonald worked to get his team in shape for Princeton Saturday...