Word: weighing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From where the ship is moored, which happens to be alongside the Standard Oil Dock at Shanghai, we can see two Chinamen bring aboard two fifty-gallon drums of gasoline, weighing approximately three hundred and fifty pounds each, on a YA-HO pole.* Does any Pullman passenger's baggage weigh that much...
Until a few years ago, oarswomen were required to weigh more than 120 pounds. But today, says Coach Eleanor Clifton, "the girls all seem to be growing thinner, and we cannot keep that regulation. Our only definite stipulation is that a girl have 'B' posture to qualify for crew, the rest depends on her natural ability." For three weeks before the class races, the oarswomen keep strict training: to bed at 10:30 p. m., a 15-minute nap each day, no eating between meals, no coffee, only one helping of wholesome food at meals...
...last week President Coolidge himself ruled that Soviet gold exports to the U. S. were a result of trade between the countries, and should be received. Therefore, Secretary of the Treasury Mellon authorized the Assay office to count, test, weigh the bars, the bankers to sell the bars to the Sub-Treasury for a check in dollar denominations, the Mint to coin the bars into quarter-eagles, half-eagles, eagles, double-eagles. Assay office chemists in the annex to the Sub-Treasury building in Wall Street lit furnaces, uncorked acid bottles, adjusted exquisite balances, burned, corroded, measured, weighed bars...
...sounds sweet to be knocked out: no feeling at all," the heavyweight champion of New England told the reporter. "It doesn't bother a bit: you just get up and collect your wits and your money." He stopped to weigh in, while the CRIMSON representative watched various near-great boxers punching the bag or each other, while men in all walks of life entered Kelley and Hayes' Gymnasium at $.25 a head of watch them. Sharkey returned to tape his hands and went on to give his opinion of the Dempsey-Tunney fight at Chicago. "If it hadn't been...
...well known that a highly efficient airplane engine can lift only 50 Ibs. for every horsepower that it can generate. Figuring the average man to weigh 150 Ibs., he would need at least three horsepower to pull himself through the air, and he can produce only one-tenth of a horsepower himself. Ability to magnify that puny force by aeromechanics is Captain Dibovsky's claim...