Word: weighs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...californianus). All trained '''seals" in circuses are actually sea lions. True seals, which belong to the family Phocidae cannot be taught to toss or juggle a ball. California sea lions make the best circus performers; the Stellers are too big, too pugnacious. An adult Steller bull weighs 1,500 to 2,000 lb., a cow up to 1,000 lb. California bulls weigh up to 1,000 lb., the cows...
...week at Seattle. A four-motored, mid-wing monoplane of lines similar to the famed Boeing "flying fortress" launched two years ago, of which the Army ordered 13 at a reputed $196,000 each, the new bomber is much bigger, much more efficient. The new Boeing is reported to weigh 20 tons, have a speed above 250 m.p.h. with eight tons of bombs...
...unrealistic than it seemed, Schmeling's stubborn conduct had a purpose: to force the New York State Athletic Commission, whose function it is to give prize fighting an air of respectability, to award him the title by default. Last week, when Schmeling went from Speculator to Manhattan to weigh in at the Athletic Commission offices for the phantom fight, his hopes were disappointed. Instead of awarding the title to Schmeling, the Commission merely voted to fine Braddock and his manager $1,000 each, suspend the champion for an indefinite period. In such a rage that a scheduled radio talk...
...administration wished to place more emphasis on a man's teaching ability and success as a tutor, when considering him for promotion, there is no sure and systematic method now in existence to judge him to this basis. Student opinion is rarely consulted or taken into account when weighing a man's values. An instructor's tutees are not asked if they were stimulated by their tutor, or if he devoted sufficient time to making the subject interesting and alive for them. Student judgment as to a man's teaching ability should weigh heavily when he is up for promotion...
...these forces, but that did not prevent Drs. Jabez Curry Street & Edward Carl Stevenson of Harvard from announcing last week that they had discovered a brand-new cosmic particle which the heavens rain upon the earth. It has a negative electrical charge like an electron, but seems to weigh ten times as much and have a thousand times as much energy, easily passing through four Geiger counters, two cloud chambers and seven inches of lead...