Word: weight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suggest that the surly manner in which you review Semmes of the Alabama, by W. Adolphe Roberts, is in itself no mean tribute to the subject of the book, and one which gains weight by its very belatedness? . . . The fact that his name rankles in Northern minds 75 years after the event, is sufficient evidence of his efficiency in carrying out his duty...
Maladjusted students at University of Chicago and other patients, instructed in General Semantics, gained weight, got over insomnia, depression, hallucinations, delusions...
Attacks on this cost are evident this year in weight-paring and the use of lighter, stronger metals by Cummins, Buda and Hercules (which displayed a Ford V-8 truck replacement unit), and in the entrance into large-scale Diesel production of Mack, Dodge and General Motors...
...Further weight reductions are indicated in General Motors' development of a two-cycle Diesel, which completes the four stages of operation-intake, compression. combustion and exhaust-in each up-and-down stroke of the piston, thus making every piston stroke a power stroke whereas four-cycle motors waste a full, powerless stroke on exhaust and intake...
...Moriz Rosenthal boasts that he can tear a pack of cards in half, break an iron horseshoe with his bare hands, snap a taut piano string with one blow of his index finger, lift a 200-lb. weight over his head. Long a student of jujitsu, he took up boxing in his 60s, has trained for several months under the guidance of Welsh Heavyweight Tommy Farr...