Word: weigh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...every 100 babies born, one is likely to weigh ten pounds or more-big enough to cause obstetric difficulties unless the mother's pelvis happens to be extra large. Doctors do not know why some babies are born big, but they are convinced that mothers cannot control the size of their offspring by going hungry. Heredity and other more obscure factors are probably involved...
While they milled around, thousands of spectators jampacked Gowdy's Boathouse, the official weighing-in headquarters. The moment a fish was reeled in, contestants scurried to the boathouse (salmon weigh most when just out of water). There a radio announcer broadcast a weigh-by-weigh description of the catches. At 9 o'clock, when the all-in bomb went off, 75 salmon were lined up on the display table. Largest was a 27-lb., 5-oz. King, boated by a 19-year-old girl, Lily Torkellson of suburban Seattle...
...filing cards on poison (largest collection in the world), razors and knives, plaster casts of teeth, hanks of hair, chunks of skull perforated with bullet holes. In his office are a homemade rifle range, charts spattered with red ink to mark the splash of blood, hundreds of machines to weigh, measure, test and sight, all made by Waddie out of odds & ends from the five...
Centrifugal Force. A man in London weighs less than he would at the North Pole, more than he would at the equator. Reason: centrifugal force (which opposes gravity) increases with the distance of the object from the axis of spin. Hence the maximum effect would be felt at the equator (furthermost from the earth's axis of spin), least effect at the Pole (the axis). If the earth's rotation were 17 times faster, men at the equator would weigh nothing, drift off into space...
...such a state the sun will be not much larger than the earth is now, and a pint of its substance will weigh...