Word: lightering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...college. Harkness lost an 8 to 7 decision to Wittenberg just before the war and holds the distinction of being the man most nearly to beat Henry. Now an architect in the Boston area, Harkness worked out at the Indoor Athletic Building twice a week last winter. In the lighter classes Harvard chances, in fact Eastern chances, are grim; for traditionally the light and middleweights come from Oklahoma, which for 25 years has been the grappling center...
...treatment of the theme than in the theme itself. A small-town setting encourages informality more than does a religious one, and correspondingly the picture takes itself very seriously, even in the dramatic scenes which, if unconvincing, at least are not dull. But it is in the lighter moments that "Welcome Stranger" is most at case. A square-dance called by Crosby makes a first-class musical number, and some scenes between him and the adolescent daughter of a drunkard come close to stealing the picture...
Stroke Pete Hewitt's sweepswingers--although the lighter of the two boats by as much as 12 pounds per man--defeated John Carlson's heavies by a little more than a length in 3 minutes 9 seconds. Both crews were classified by Haines as "inexperienced...
...steel sphere and its contents will be heavy enough to sink. To keep it from sinking right to the bottom of the sea and staying there, it will be suspended from streamlined aluminum containers filled with aviation gasoline, which is considerably lighter than water and almost incompressible. Fully loaded, the bathyscaphe will weigh about 40 tons. Because the winches of the mother ship cannot support this weight, the gasoline and half the ballast must be added after the bathyscaphe is in the Water...
...study of operatic directing is not the only radical departure from traditional technique offered by the school. More fluid staging and less wooden "business" have added a lighter touch to the student performances here as well as a feeling of animation which makes an operatic spectacle more than a series of singers parading on and off the stage with little or no attention to acting...