Word: lightweight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even before we were printed in Manila, TIME was doing its best to help our troops and internees catch up with the news. For example, ever since last October we have been flying our lightweight Pony Edition from Honolulu to Leyte, distributing 4,000 copies there free each week while that same issue was still on sale right here at home. And the copy of our Pony Edition which Correspondent Bill Gray flew to Manila in his pocket a few weeks ago was read aloud to the internees at Santo Tomas by rescued Newscaster Don Bell of NBC. Said Gray...
...Wright Field, where one model is already at work, the robot sits in a cold chamber wearing test garments. Researchers, in a warm adjoining room, read its reactions by means of instruments. With the Copper Man as a guinea pig, they have developed lightweight, electrically warmed suits in which a human being can be comfortable at temperatures ranging from 60° below zero to 60° above...
...lightweight boxing champion in school, he had one outstanding qualification for his job: a contagious fighting spirit. To Colonel Zemke, one of the truly great fighter commanders of World War II, there was only one unforgivable mistake: "To let a Hun get away is a criminal offense. It's a worse blunder than getting shot up yourself...
...open back seat of a Packard touring car, Candidate Roosevelt set out, bundled to his white-stubbled chin in a beaver-collared overcoat, his old brown campaign fedora scrunched on his balding poll. Beside him sat Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, shivering in a lightweight topcoat, his nose and chin blue with cold. The sky was lead-colored, the wind sharp. Franklin Roosevelt coughed occasionally and his eyes watered behind his pince-nez. But at Poughkeepsie, Wappingers Falls, Kingston and Newburgh, he waved his arm, grinned, bobbed his head vigorously, spoke cheerfully to the street crowds...
...Private Sidney ("Beau Jack") Walker, 23, Fort Benning, Ga.; his first fight since entering the Army ten weeks ago; by defeating Lightweight Champion Private Bob Montgomery of Keesler Field, Miss., in a ten-round, nontitle bout at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Gate receipts: $35,864,900 in War Bonds. The 14-month-old feud now stands at two victories for Jack, two for Montgomery...