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Word: lightweight (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wednesday Night Fights (Wed. 10 p.m., ABC). Lightweight Champion Wallace Smith v. New Orleans' Joe Brown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Feb. 11, 1957 | 2/11/1957 | See Source »

Cars which now average 3,450 lbs. will use more lightweight aluminum and magnesium, will thus get no heavier. The car weight per horsepower, which fell from 33 Ibs. to 15 Ibs. between 1946 and 1957, will hit a low of 12 Ibs. in '61. Since this "is the range of the present Corvette and Thunderbird sports cars, the average car of 1961 may perform as well as today's sports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The 1961 Models | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

...Rock Island's Jenks is no dreamer. As a research-conscious vice president, who moved up to the presidency last year, he installed electronic gadgets in freight yards to check and sort cars faster, was the first to use lightweight, economical (seat cost: $2,300 v. $3,800 for standard cars) "Jet Rocket" trains, which are equipped with radio communications so that trainmen no longer had to drop notes to station masters from speeding trains. Jenks has even put to work the U.S. Army's sniperscope, which uses infrared rays to see through darkness; a modified version keeps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: THE NEW AGE OF RAILROADS | 1/28/1957 | See Source »

Untertan v. Obrigkeit. Publisher Augstein, a scrappy lightweight (5 ft. 4 in., 143 lbs.) whose family had opposed both Hitler and the Kaiser, started publishing at a time when West Germany's press was still timorous under Allied controls. His announced purpose was to protect the Untertan (underdog) from Obrigkeiten, or big shots, puncture the German's traditional awe of officialdom. Sponsored by British occupation officials, Augstein's magazine blasted Allied Obrigkeiten so vociferously that he was forced to get new backing, change the magazine's name from Diese Woche (This Week). Starting out with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The First Decade | 1/14/1957 | See Source »

...Dave Skeels has done an excellent job so far this season, registering a decision and a pin. But Skells is more a 115-pounder, who must give away a weight advantage of several pounds, and when he meets Cornell's lightweight, reportedly one of the best in the East, his great speed and aggressiveness may not compensate for his weight deficiency...

Author: By William C. Sigal, | Title: LINING THEM UP | 1/10/1957 | See Source »

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