Word: lightweight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...length and a half behind Cunningham, the second lightweight crew, stroked by Johnny Abbot, tied with M. I. T. for third place in a dead heat. A length behind Abbot and M. I. T., the N.T.S. shell plugged across, out-raced but not disheartened...
Bucking a heavy head wind, the winning crew, rowing the course in three minutes and forty-five seconds, nosed out Cunningham's lightweight boat by a deck length in what was probably the most exciting race of the term. With a tail wind favoring the 150-lb. boat, the story might have been different...
Made up from last year's Freshman crews and the remnants of Varsity and Jayvee eights, Tom Bolles and Bert Haines have put one heavy and two lightweight shells into the river against the Navy and Business School crews...
...Sugar") Robinson, Harlem's undefeated welterweight: a nontitle match against lightweight champion Sammy Angott; by unanimous decision of the officials at the end of ten rounds; after both had hit the canvas with a single thump in the eighth; giving Robinson his 33rd straight triumph in his professional career; .at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden...
Scheduled to appear about a year after war's end, the new cars will be streamlined into ladybug-like lumps. Using aluminum, magnesium, other featherweight metals, they will weigh 1,200 Ib. (v. 2,700 to 4,200 Ib. now). Aviation gas (100 octane) will power lightweight engines, mounted in the rear. Wheels will be smaller (13 in. and less) to save rubber, permit a lower center of gravity. Bodies will be of plastic, tops will be of transparent plastic such as is now used on bomber noses. Best feature of all: prices...