Word: lighter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Maritime Commission are covering bulkheads, doors, crews' quarters and galleys with it. It does not char, chip or crack, can be cut or tack-welded like uncoated metal, and actually strengthens light steel sheets to which it is applied-a quality which may make it possible to build lighter ships. Whether Seaporcel can be used on a ship's hull is still a moot question; the Navy is testing to see whether barnacles will grow...
...well will be permitted some choice concerning the type of athletic work to be done in the training periods. In addition to the pre-breakfast periods in which men will alternate mile runs and calisthenics, the NROTC will devote three hours each week to conditioning, and others, carrying lighter drill schedules, will exercise for five hours...
...soft, whitish metal, like silvery cheese, lithium is not only the lightest metal but the lightest known solid: it will float on gasoline. (Cork and balsa wood only seem lighter: they are pocketed with air.) Long known in the laboratories for its instability, lithium tarnishes almost instantly in air, decomposes water at ordinary temperatures. It owes its new usefulness to this chemical alacrity, and to the dogged research of a small company (The Lithium Co., Newark, N.J.) which now has some big customers...
Within a week the partially completed bomber strip near Holtz Bay was in U.S. hands. Ridge after ridge was captured, until the defenders were compressed into an area of 20 sq. mi. U.S. losses were lighter than had been expected...
...other from Detroit. Neither had ever boxed before, and they hammered each other with haymakers for four rounds to a draw (necessitating a return match this week). But the loudest yells were for a heavyweight, Private Clarence Bressett of the notoriously vociferous cannon company, who, though ten pounds lighter than his opponent, knocked him clear across the ring with a right uppercut that sounded like the explosion of a 60-mm. mortar shell...