Word: weigh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...straight face that the Neptune is only a peaceful research project. Its specifications give it a warlike look. It will be 45 ft. long-one foot shorter than the German V2, which is now considered obsolescent. It will be slimmer (32 inches in diameter instead of 65) and will weigh about six tons fully loaded, instead of the V-2's 14 tons...
William Bowers' dialogue is conventional in the "crisp" manner, but it is also amusing, highly efficient and skillfully delivered. Sample: O'Brien's modest description of his poverty. He used to have to save up to weigh himself...
...inflation reached the stage where even the weight of the lowly copper has been inflated? Or maybe you included the fog, coal smoke and dust, dirt and other elements that are present in the New York air, when you weighed your pennies [TIME, May 19]. Here in the Great State of Texas . . . pennies weigh only 138 to the pound; i.e., 70 pounds have a value of only...
Excluding Al Petite, the cox, the Crimson averages six pounds heavier than either of its two opponents. The Varsity averages 187 pounds, while Princeton and Tech oarsmen weigh, on the average only...
...members of the Saltonstall Committee have shown a determination to waste no time in making their suggestions. Although they will probably come up with something concrete later this year, so extended drive for funds will materially delay the building of any elaborate project. Whether this factor will weigh heavily in the decision, only the committee itself knows...