Word: weighs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hour after hour like a well-drilled football team the ladlemen dipped and poured load after load. The completed mirror was to weigh 20 tons: that meant 100 trips. To a balcony commanding the scene 50 spectators at a time were admitted, quickly shooed away to make room for 50 more. Mingling with newshawks on three platforms and watching at their leisure were some twoscore scientific notables: Sir William Bragg, Nobel prizeman now lecturing at Cornell; Mt. Wilson Observatory's famed Walter Sydney Adams; Research Directors Frank Baldwin Jewett of Bell Telephone Laboratories and Charles Edward Kenneth Mees...
...cowled engines set into the leading edge of its single wing. Its wingspan is 114 ft. 2 in., its length 76 ft. Tanks in the wings carry 1.250 gal. of fuel. With tanks full, a crew of five, 32 passengers, 1,000 Ib. of mail, the 8-42 will weigh 19 tons...
...declaim in measured tone, to weigh each gesture carefully, to poise and balance gracefully upon the stage may once have been the aims of public speaking, but they are relics of an era that considered what was said less important than how it was said. The Lee Wade and Boylston contests have been lauded for encouraging public speaking, and an interest in great orations. Public speaking certainly has its place in the modern scheme of education. But the public speaking that is merely parrot like elocution is designed only for those who will in later life be well supplied with...
...involving an ingenue, her weary mother, a Terraplane salesman and a policeman with the loudest voice at the Show. Two girls on a turntable spent their hours and days climbing in & out of a Chrysler. Packard boasted the "Queen of a Century of Progress," who would on request weigh your signature. A couple in evening dress against a backdrop of swank estates set the stage for Pierce-Arrow...
...varied list of plays. Teams now have more speed than they used to and why not, a player has an outfit that allows him to move agilely about. By actual weight a football uniform in my day in the last few minutes of play on a wet afternoon would weigh from 55 to as high as 65 pounds. How could a man play good football while carrying that much weight...