Word: lightweight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London last week, Britain's Sco-phony, Ltd. exhibited a new, lightweight (35 lbs.), antennaless TV receiver which can be moved from room to room and plugged into an electric socket. The set has a 7½-by-6-in. screen and retails for ?55 ($220). For an antenna the set uses the electric wiring system of the house. A cylindrical condenser is attached to the power cord to reduce interference. A booster inside the set steps up the sound and TV signals to the necessary strength. An aerial can be attached in areas of high interference...
...Tigers had built up an 11-0 lead and Howie Houston added the last five with a pin of heavyweight Reddy Finney in his first real test Houston's stellar performance brought the crowd of 1500 to its feet. In between, however, the Tigers scored pins in the lightweight, middleweight, and heavyweight divisions...
...visitors' strength lies, mainly in the lightweight brackets. Dave McAlpin, for instance, who faces Joe Kozol at 121, has pinned in his last two outings...
Harvard will be especially handicapped in the lightweight classes. Dave Smith, whose arm was overextended at the elbow two weeks ago, has been cleared by the medical staff but will not risk a reinjury midway in the season. Bob Abbond will wrestle...
Franklin Roosevelt made him Under Secretary of the Treasury in 1933, only to fire him six months later for objecting to Roosevelt's dollar devaluation policy. To friends, Roosevelt dusted Acheson off as a "lightweight." The lightweight promptly built up a small fortune as a corporation lawyer in Washington. He bought a fine home in swank Georgetown for his pretty artist wife and a 120-acre farm in Maryland. He picked up fat fees from utility companies fighting the New Deal. Though he was not a Government official when war in Europe came along, he helped put over...