Word: lighter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...choppy sea was a risky business for a plane that was toting a pair of depth charges, beaching gear, and a crew of eight, but Ensign Pinter figured that the plane had burned 300 gallons of gas since it left San Juan, Puerto Rico, was therefore 1,800 Ib. lighter. He decided to try a landing anyhow, and he got away with...
Captain Charles Emery Rosendahl, inveterate lighter-than-air enthusiast, had long since won recognition and appropriations for middle-sized blimps. Last week he was happy: blimps have been "contacting the enemy," and the third Eastern blimp base was opened, at Elizabeth City...
...Louisiana State University ophthalmologist announced that he had developed a plastic eye which he claimed was lighter, more durable than glass...
Girls, he revealed, will be recruited on the same basis as men, but will be given household tasks and some of the lighter farm work. Men, of course, will do the heavier jobs, such as haying, threshing and splitting wood...
...Guild and Breck Marshall will again wrestle the lighter weights for the Crimson, as the two Sophomores did last week. Harry Blaine is slated for the 136-pound class and Captain Dick Thomas for the 145. Don Miles in the 155, Doug Burns in the 165, Lee Sosman in the 175, and Tom Rogstad in the heavyweight division are the rest of the Varsity entries...