Word: lighter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Germany's total output of oil products, including both imports and synthetic production, is thought to equal only 5% of U.S. production of crude oil, though no one knows exactly how much synthetic fuel she produces. In synthesis, it is easiest to produce gasoline (composed of lighter, simpler molecules), harder to produce fuel oil, hardest to produce lubricating oils and greases. For this reason, while Germany is moderately well off for gasoline, she is thought to be desperately short of the heavier oils. This would explain her eagerness to lay hands on every possible field of natural petroleum...
...high-load bombers in 1938. Boeing's famous four-engined Flying Fortress had been tested and proved, the company was anxious to go into real production. Louis A. Johnson, then Assistant Secretary of War, and General Malin Craig, then Chief of Staff, decided instead to concentrate on cheaper, lighter, shorter-range bombers and pursuit ships. Their reasons seemed good at the time: limited funds then available would obviously buy more of the cheaper planes; the British had advised against long-range aircraft...
From the beginning the heavy and experience Cabot forces kept the controlling hand in the afternoon's activities. The Crimson scrum out drove the lighter Queens' forwards mercilessly while the backs had a field day, turning up with one sparking run after the other. Princeton ex-football captain, Tom Mountain, was in real form and scored four tries on long runs from his football position. Kenny Cuthhertson, Phil Markwart, Marsh Holleb, Cy Taylor, "Captain Billy" Waters and Johnny Randolf also joined the scoring bandwagon with a try apiece...
...confines his hopes to holding the Indians to a low-scoring triumph or in his lighter moments may wish for some miraculous upset. It appears all too probable that the invading Green will repeat its mid-winter Hanover win by a nearly identical margin of 24 points...
Last week thousands of war-worried U.S. citizens strolled from their neighborhood cinemas with a lighter step. These heartened cinemagoers had seen a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer short subject, More About Nostradamus, now playing in some 200 U.S. cinema houses. According to the fabled Renaissance Prophet Nostradamus, Hitler would be licked and everything was going to come out all right...