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Word: weighing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Describing the gibbon, Mr. Coolidge said: "Many will remember 'Bimbo' the gibbon that made a name for himself in the film 'Chang'. Gibbons stand about three feet high and weigh about twelve pounds. The gibbon is covered with a furry coat that may vary in color from black, with white markings, to light tan or silver. . . . They have a flattened face with a human looking nose. The scientific name for the gibbon is 'Bylobates', which means treewalker. It is particularly appropriate as they swing through the trees by means of their long arms at a remarkable speed. They...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Zoologist Leads Nine Months Trek to Study Agile Gibbons in Siam | 12/15/1936 | See Source »

...wheel wobbled and Ignat ran into it, spilling them both. It was the six-day bicycle race at Madison Square Garden in Manhattan, around an O-shaped pine-board track, with 15 teams of two men each dressed in bright jerseys, pedaling in relays on bicycles that cost $100, weigh 19 Ib. After 146 hours, three teams had circled the track 24,997 times and the winners had to be decided on points awarded for the sprints-races within a race-that punctuate the six-day marathon in series of ten, five times each day. Winners were blond Jimmy Walthour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Cycle Cycles | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

Harvard's Varsity home winter sports schedule will get under way tomorrow, when four of the teams will weigh anchor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARSITY WINTER SPORTS WILL START TOMORROW | 12/11/1936 | See Source »

Some old-fashioned truck tractors and their trailers weigh ten tons unloaded, 40 loaded. To reduce vehicle weight, trailer makers are experimenting with the new Pullman technique of incorporating the frame in the body. As for safety, truck makers now claim that the driver alone can be improved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORT: Truck Show | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

...nationalism that have swept over Italy and Germany have resulted in the development of the most prodigious racing machines ever seen. The Italian Alfa-Romeos and the German Mercedes and Auto Union, which are their match in every respect, have engines of over 400 h.p. in cars which weigh less than half the weight of a Chevrolet, and they have all exceeded a speed of 200 mi. per hour on the straight. They have had lavished on them every available facility of the manufacturers who build them in the way of engineering development and testing, it is said at government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 2, 1936 | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

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