Word: weighing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jimmy can discourse for hours on how "she" works. A 14-foot pendulum and two weights keep her going. Each week Jimmy cranks up the weights, which weigh 1500 and 1000 pounds. The operation takes about an hour...
Next month, Dave Beck's agents will begin descending on drivers of the nation's 6,000,000 trucks, wherever they stop-for a cup of coffee, to weigh-in or unload cargoes, at bridges, tunnels or gas stations. Beck's boys will ask to see their union credentials. Drivers that have them will be allowed to grind on. Those that do not will be neatly listed in Beck's books. Later, Teamster organizers will campaign among non-union drivers, pay calls on their employers, persuade them to sign contracts with the mighty Teamsters...
...Abboud moves back to 136 today and Tom Connors, who has already wrestled at 175 and 165, may replace Rod Skinner at 155. If he does, he will face Captain Russ Randall (five wins, one defeat). Both Connors and Skinner will weigh in this morning...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences will feel no financial pinch this year because of the transfer, President Conant explained, as the necessary endowment has been transferred along with the Libraries. But if maintenance costs increase any more in the future, a Faculty committee will have to weigh the library's need against other requirements of the Arts and Sciences department...
Throughout her London success, few critics considered Tallulah very seriously as an actress. But her looks were really something. Cecil Beaton called her "... A wicked archangel with . . . carven features . . . Her eyelashes, like a spreading peacock's tail, weigh down the lids over her enormous snake-like eyes . . . She is cadaverously thin ... the most easily recognizable face I know and ... the most luscious . . . cheeks like huge acid pink peonies . . . eyelashes built out with hot liquid paint to look like burnt matches . . . Her sullen, discontented, rather evil rosebud of a mouth is painted the brightest scarlet . . . shiny as ... strawberry...