Word: weight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...central India at a low rate of interest and with the help of Russian engineers. But if every Russian crop-dusting loan to some Middle East nation is to be considered a setback for the West, then presumably the Russians would have been crushed years ago by the weight of U.S. aid. In the past three years, the U.S. has spent in India alone...
...Hackers Challenge Cup" race, which will include four Crimson light weight boats, annually marks the withdrawal of the crew into the inside tanks. The fifth crew comes from Andover Academy--the first schoolboy eight ever to race for the Hackers...
...Gathering Weight. That was how it began, for the news had seeped slowly upwards from the least respectable and least responsible papers. With no other way of knowing what was going on, the people who habitually read only the Times and listen to the BBC would not even have guessed at the romance until three weeks ago. Now the great weight of sedate judgment was making itself felt: the views of the Archbishop of Canterbury, of such powerful leaders of Conservative thought as the Marquess of Salisbury, and of the cautious, conservative and pious segment of nonconformist believers throughout...
...Groove Over. As Author Hogben approaches modern times, he takes his readers painlessly through the discoveries of Galileo and Newton, through Descartes to Karl Gauss. Just as painlessly, he introduces them to algebra, the laws of acceleration, the concepts of mass and weight, binary numbers, and the graph plottings of the parabola and the ellipse. But his major accomplishment will be to give his readers the notion of mathematics as a major part of their heritage...
...Navy, engaged in Korea, sent a hurry-up call for something to meet the MIG on a fairly even basis. It wanted to redesign the plane, change it from the short-range to a mediumrange, all-weather fighter. This meant adding 7,000 Ibs. to the plane's weight...