Word: lighter
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Ingalls finished and looked up. Taftmen leaped to their feet to applaud, but the ovation was noticeably lighter than it had been at the beginning. Two seats away, Earl Warren, his face frozen in a faint quarter-smile, applauded perfunctorily. Cabot Lodge gave two handclaps, got up from the speakers' table and strode angrily from the platform...
...athletic deficit but is as much a proper charge against the resources of the Faculty as the maintenance of a library or a laboratory." He also pointed out that the University has arranged "for the coming football seasons without regard to the gate receipts and provided for lighter schedules...
Returning from Paris recently, a Paulista friend brought Baby's bride-to-be a Cartier cigarette lighter adorned with a sapphire as big as a robin's egg. The friend was Sáo Paulo's fabulous press lord, Assis Chateaubriand, 60, who shares Baby's dislike for Matarazzo and likes to print whole pages of pictures of underpaid Matarazzo workers and their crowded hovels. "Chatô's" head office, two of his 28 newspapers and one of his TV stations are in Sáo Paulo. So is his new Museu de Arte...
...Jumbos surprised Crimson wrestlers where they are strongest--in the lighter weights. In the opening matches of the meet, they gained an 11 to 3 margin...
Mortal Remains. Speculating on what actually happened to the bones, American scientists remembered still another theory: they had gotten as far as Tientsin, where they were loaded on a lighter for transfer to an offshore freighter. The lighter capsized and the precious boxes either sank or drifted away...