Word: weigh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bicycle manufacturing for the next three months, forbade any further manufacture of children's models. Since 85% of the 1,800,000 bikes produced last year were children's models, actually about three times as many adult bikes can be produced this year. They will weigh only 31 lb. (v. 57 lb. now), have no frills, must rely mainly on four metals: iron, unalloyed steel, silver, gold...
...globular star clusters, against which he measured the Sun's motion, are themselves motionless. Mayall also confirmed "earlier evidence that our entire Milky Way is in rapid rotation around the distant center of Sagittarius." But he now suspects that the entire Milky Way may weigh only half as much as observers have believed. Sighed a New York Times headline: "Earth's Significance Diminishes...
Moscow war correspondents and military observers have come to learn that vaguely worded Soviet communiqués usually herald some startling news. Last week Red Army spokesmen conceded a substantial stiffening in German resistance, continued to weigh Russian gains in terms of scores of villages and "tens of kilometers," were carefully vague for several days about specific details of the Soviet advance...
...Must weigh at least 132 pounds...
...Ernest Orlando Lawrence, hurls positively charged particles, the nuclei of atoms. But the betatron hurls the negatively charged particles which spin about the nuclei of atoms. Unlike the cyclotron's positive particles, the betatron's hurtling electrons will not effectively smash atoms-for one reason, they weigh only 1/1 800th as much as the nucleus' proton...