Word: weight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tested Offy engine was laid on its side. In its unusual mount, the Offy not only ran cooler, it gave the car a sleek, slanted profile that rose only 22 inches off the track at the snout. It looked strange, but it was sweet to handle; the off-center weight of the tilted Offy made it cat-quick on the corners. Next year almost every other racer at Indianapolis will probably copy its style...
Stott found that 55% of the retarded children had been ailing from birth, usually failing to gain weight, or losing weight, during the first few weeks. This was double the rate among their brothers and sisters (not retarded), three times the rate among unrelated comparison groups...
...Push v. Weight. Professors Morrison and Gold start off by challenging one of the most basic laws of all, the principle of equivalence. According to this rule, on which general relativity is built, a body's inertial mass (resistance to a push) is the same in a given gravitational field as its gravitational mass (weight). Morrison and Gold admit that every experiment tried so far has shown the two kinds of mass to be precisely equivalent, but they think the apparatus used may have been biased in favor of equivalence. Anti-matter,* they point out, is just as respectable...
Therefore, argue Morrison and Gold, conditions in earthly laboratories may be too special to trust. Gravitation might act differently if more antimatter were around. A sample of antimatter, for instance, might retain its inertial mass but be repelled instead of attracted by the earth's gravitational field. Its weight would be less than nothing; it would actually tend to lift itself. In an "anti-galaxy," a bit of ordinary matter would be repelled in the same...
...years Carnation Milk advertised that its product came from contented cows. Last week Chas, Pfizer & Co. disclosed that it has found a way to make all farm animals contented by adding tranquilizers to their feed. Results: steers fed tranquilizers gained weight 12% faster than steers left to worry about life; lambs gained weight up to 28% faster. Pfizer is not yet ready to say that tranquilizers should be generally used by cattle raisers. But tests so far show improved quality with no bad effects...