Word: weighed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...likes giving dinner parties, driving the three airplanes which belong to her husband, Cowboy-Actor Hoot Gibson. Like James Dunn, who used to be a sales man of portable lunch wagons, played a small part in Sweet Adeline, and has a clause in his contract saying he must weigh less than 157 Ibs., she is likely, on the strength of her performance in Bad Girl, to be a star in her next picture...
...gymnasium shot in which a training fighter swings wildly at his spar- ring partner's chin for several minutes in an effort to knock him out; Armstrong playing solitaire on a table set up on the floor of the gymnasium; fighters wearing their bathrobes on the scales while weigh- ing in; Ayres, after having won a fight, talking into a microphone which is held several feet away from him instead of close to the ropes, against his lips; Ayres wearing a full dress suit in a nightclub, a sartorial liberty which even Gene Tunney in his most precious period never...
...crew of an airplane such as the "America", there is bound to be an overshadowing of one man against another when the dangerous hours have ended. The tension under which such flights are carried out, as well as the swiftness of action that is required, make it hard to weigh exactly the relative value of each man to the party, especially since all those concerned are men of exceptional ability in their field. Whether or not Fokker's criticism of Byrd will prove justified remains to be seen. As a general rule, however, deprecation of this kind does more harm...
Then there are standard quarts and bushels, standard tin cans and hotel dishes, machines which weigh an electron, others which weigh bridges. They bend steel girders at the bureau and blow up steel tanks. One device, an interferometer, indicates how far a 40-in. brick wall is deflected by the pressure of one hand. They have an ultramicrometer which measures a movement of one-millionth part of an inch. But it is "too sensitive for any known...
Father: Scientific investigation shows that the boy will be 7 ft. tall and weigh 400 lb. when he is 21. I want him to develop into a normal, healthy, intelligent heman, not a giant...