Word: lighter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Borie, holed by ramming the sub, was mortally wounded. Her engine-room crew had worked neck-deep in water to keep her going during the fight. They had used cigaret-lighter fluid to keep the auxiliary radio engine going. The next night the crew was ordered off the ship. Twenty-seven crewmen lost their lives in the freezing North Atlantic. Friendly shells sank the Borie...
...years ago this week-Nov. 12, 1918. Beside the Danube, there was a quickening. Along Vienna's Ringstrasse and down the crowded Kärntnerstrasse impudent anti-Nazi slogans appeared. The Viennese smiled again and the burden of the bombed-out German guests from the north seemed lighter. There were new jokes and new decrees by Himmler, prescribing death for convicted jokesmiths...
With Perkins gone, Henry Lamar is without the team's most powerful plunger, best ball-handler, and best passer from the fullback slot. Paul Garrity, who will move over from tailback to replace him, is about 15 pounds lighter, and has had a year less at Harvard, which makes a big difference in performing the fullback's complicated duties...
What newspapers would do now was a nut many a publisher found hard to crack. Some may do what many magazines have done: use lighter-weight paper. Most newspapers are printed on 32-lb. paper, could be printed on 22½-lb. (telephone-directory stock...
...Harvard-Radcliffe orchestra, directed by George Brown, gave a program that leaned heavily on the Mozart side, but which featured such lighter touches as selections from Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" and from the Debussy "Petite Suite...