Word: weigh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They know that each spring, without fail, the harp seals (so called from their harplike back markings) swim to meet the Arctic ice floes, honeycomb them with blowholes, whelp near the holes in late February. In three weeks, the ravenous young cats weigh about 70 pounds, are prime young "whitecoats...
...Junior or Senior not on the Dean's List who falls to attend his last college exercise before or his first college exercise after the April recess will not necessarily be subject to disciplinary action at that time, although such cuts will weigh heavily against him if his record becomes unsatisfactory...
...little can a full-grown man weigh and still live? Canadian doctors this week believed they had treated the sickest, lightest, most wasted man on record...
...shippers, anxiously waiting for Congress to chart a shipping policy, could finally weigh anchor. Congress passed the Bland Bill, which provides for 1) the disposal of surplus war-built ships; and 2) refunds to ship operators to reimburse them for the high cost of ships purchased during the war. From the vast U.S. merchant fleet of 40,080,000 tons, 61% of all the ships in the world, the U.S. Maritime Commission will put on the block 2,000 or more slow Liberty ships, about 400 faster Victory ships and C-type cargo liners, and about 550 speedy tankers. Selling...
Pygmalion (by George Bernard Shaw; produced by Theatre Inc.) still holds up, after 33 years, as one of Shaw's most actable and entertaining plays. One reason may be that it contains almost nothing to weigh it down. It is Shaw on a holiday. His account of how a phonetics expert transforms a Cockney flower girl into the likes of a duchess is first & foremost good fun. It is a highly satirical, wryly Shavian fairy tale-but a fairy tale for all that...