Word: weigh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...officers. On the first day, bemused Army recruiting officers gave out 13,208 long, pink application blanks, explained 13,208 times that an applicant must be between her 21st and 50th birthdays* (no, she must not fib about her age), must be between five and six feet tall, must weigh between 105 and 200 Lb., must have a high-school education...
Scheduled to appear about a year after war's end, the new cars will be streamlined into ladybug-like lumps. Using aluminum, magnesium, other featherweight metals, they will weigh 1,200 Ib. (v. 2,700 to 4,200 Ib. now). Aviation gas (100 octane) will power lightweight engines, mounted in the rear. Wheels will be smaller (13 in. and less) to save rubber, permit a lower center of gravity. Bodies will be of plastic, tops will be of transparent plastic such as is now used on bomber noses. Best feature of all: prices...
...Kuecker gave some figures to help explain this dismal situation. Minimum supplies and equipment for each U.S. soldier landed abroad weigh 15 tons. A Liberty ship loads about 9,000 tons of cargo, or enough for about 600 men. A round-trip Pacific voyage takes 80-odd days...
...relationship to the war effort. As a comprehensive survey of the possibilities for student service, his speech will be of aid to all those who have not yet found their battle stations, while his opinions on undergraduate responsibility in the coming offensive have a proven worth which should weigh heavily in each man's final decision. Much has happened since that unfortunate masquerade portraying President Conant as marching the student body off to the wars at the point of a bayonet. Each attack and defeat in the intervening year has shown how far-sighted our President was then...
...both cases he neglects with no more than a passing scoff the maxim that an attack cannot be made with a reasonable hope of success unless a number of calculable and near-calculable military factors weigh on the side of the attacker. He cites his favorite General, Foch, who sent a marvelous message to the bumbling "Papa" Joffre before the First Battle of the Marne stating that his center, his right, and his left were in terrible shape, that the situation was excellent, and that he was attacking. He forgets, it would appear, that the situation was excellent only because...