Word: weight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...realized that he had better get shaved for another dinner with Mohammed V (Nixon's heavy blue beard, the delight of cartoonists, was showing five o'clock shadow). He made one of his rare visits to the Senate gymnasium, shaved, showered and stepped on the scales. His weight: 166, down 20 Ibs. in two years by grace of careful calorie counting...
...flying machine, a mosquito is not efficient, but since its weight is low it gets 450 million miles per gallon of nectar, which it uses as fuel. In the Scientific Monthly, Professor Brian Hocking of the University of Alberta tells about his experiments with the flight of insects. He puts his subjects on a "flight mill": a delicate arm that turns round and round, propelled by a buzzing insect cemented to its tip. A photoelectric cell counts the revolutions, and from its records the insect's speed, power and mileage can be computed...
...prickling tiger hunt and Author Godden's evocations of the lush tropical fecundities of Indian jungle country. Rumer Godden is a fastidious craftsman but a trifle hammy. Some of her sentences preen themselves so long before the mirror of sensibility that, like Mooltiki, they never quite carry their weight in sense...
Born. To Steve Allen, 35, owl-eyed TV funnyman; and Jayne Meadows, 35, red-haired TV paneleer (I've Got a Secret): their first child (his fourth), a son; in Manhattan. Name: William Christopher. Weight...
Born. To Yvonne de Carlo, 35, sultry brunette cinemadventuress and Robert Drew Morgan, 42, muscled Hollywood stunt man: their second child, second son; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Michael Robert. Weight...