Word: weighing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Orville Tice, former football captain at New Haven's Hillhous high, and John Maher will open at tackles. Both are over six feet two, and weigh 200 pounds...
...smoking bad for the heart? Non-smoking wives tell their husbands that it is. Heart specialists, many of them smokers, are not so sure. Last week the Journal of the A.M.A. set out to weigh the evidence...
...idea of foreign agents in one's government, but if the consequences have not been very serious one has no cause for hysteria. It is well, now and then, to apply the test of pragmatism to vexed ideological issues: an Everest of feathers may turn out to weigh only a few pounds...
...were all uranium-the heaviest metal-such a sphere would weigh about 460 Ibs., but only a small part (one guess: 24 Ibs.) can be uranium or plutonium. There must be a chemical explosive to start the nuclear reaction, and there may be some empty space...
Encasing the early bombs was a large mass of "tamper," i.e., a heavy metal such as lead or tungsten, whose inertia held the bomb together while the nuclear explosion was getting under way. If the tamper were eliminated, which is possible, the bomb would weigh not much more than an eleven-inch sphere of TNT (about...