Word: lightweights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...George Lansbury [Leader of the Labor Party] opened at the Royal Horticultural Hall, Westminster, today, the Lightweight Cycling, Hiking and Camping Exhibition. . . . In his speech Mr. Lansbury declared that it would be a bad day for us when we ceased to use our limbs. It was a good thing that some machinery should be so adapted that men and women could use their own limbs, and he was glad to see this rebirth of interest in cycling...
...Although motorists may hardly credit it, the tricycle is coming into vogue again, this time as a racing machine. Racing cyclists today were surprised to learn that these new lightweight three-wheeled machines are capable of doing as much as 23 miles an hour on an ordinary road...
Woman's Shaving Tackle. Not forgetting its pedestrian readers the Guardian reported: "The most striking exhibit, from the hiker's point of view, is an 'ultra-lightweight week-end kit,' comprising rucksack, sleeping-bag, tent, a four-peg coat-hanger, a petrol-stove, frypan, water-bucket, a plate, cup, receptacles for food and drink, knife, spoon and fork, and electric torch, a pair of shoes, a tent pole, swimming suit, complete change of clothes, towels, soap, facecloth, shaving tackle, and toothbrush, the whole weighing slightly over ten and a half pounds...
...skyscraper. There last week, about to pop with excitement, he pored over galley proofs of a book he has written, to be published next month. It is called Be A News Photographer* The book is based on Author Price's theory that, with the new types of compact, lightweight, high-speed cameras, every reporter may now be his own photographer. And should be. The old World once issued handy cameras to all its newshawks (who soon lost them). So did the Journal. The practice is now coming back on the Gannett chain papers (notably in Albany and Elmira...
...stay in jail tonight, your worship," he pleaded. "I can't stay in jail. Think of my public! I have to fight Jack Flynn for the Irish lightweight championship tonight...