Word: weighing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eligible for the awards. Special district boards will soon be set up, with a local office in Boston to screen candidates. Applicants will be considered on the basis of their personalities as well as their previous record, while a student's purpose in attending a foreign school will also weigh heavily in the decision...
...Success. With formal questioning and informal ("Tell me about yourself") interviews, the whole S.R.I, test takes only 40 minutes. Analyzers then take about five hours to weigh the answers "blind" (they never see the subject) and predict how the subject will do in a certain...
...Committee must first weigh the value of the training that the bill proposes. The part that UMT will take in the shaping of the individual trainee's personality is a comparatively minor matter. Certainly six months of boredom, frustration, and close order drill will mold the conscriptee into neither a "fine upstanding youth" nor a "neo-fascist" unless he had strong tendencies in one of those directions at the outset...
Despite Dior's deviation, other Paris dressmakers grimly carried on the New Look's long skirts, pinched waists, and other handicaps to normal activity. Example: heavy "riding habit" skirts that weigh six pounds. The hobble skirt was everywhere, usually split to the knee to leave the wearers some power of locomotion...
...stars may be born and decline to stellar senility. Zwicky thinks that the last stage may be a star made up chiefly of neutrons. Since neutrons are very much denser than atoms, such stars might be only ten miles in diameter. Every cubic centimeter of their volume would weigh, Zwicky figures, about one million tons...