Word: weight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dunster's ninety-pound weaklings are heading for squash court number eight these days. For there the Dunster weight-lifting club has made its new home...
Assertion of Faith. In Fairbank's view, most U.S. China watchers have attached too much weight to the "visionary" blueprint of world revolution outlined by Chinese Defense Minister Lin Piao last September. Said he: "This was a reassertion of faith, put out mainly as compensation for China's recent defeats in many parts of the globe...
...dollar was named after the thaler, the German currency at the time of the American Revolution. The British pound was named for its weight in silver, and nationalistic France naturally named its money the franc. Last week Zambia announced that it would soon trade in its pounds, shillings and pence for something more poetic. In 1968 it will change to decimal currency and one kwacha (dawn) will be worth 100 ngwee (brightnesses...
...splits and dividends. Not only is the Dow a severely limited gauge of the 1,625 stocks on the Big Board, but it gives undue power to higher-priced stocks. Example: Du Pont is only one-sixth the size of General Motors, but carries more than twice as much weight in the Dow because it sells for about $218, as compared...
...letters might be detrimental to freshmen whose hope for assignment rests on the acceptance of their reason as "substantial". He suggested that as the number of letters increases, the interpretation of "substantial" would necessarily become sticker. Many freshmen letters, he added, would thus carry very little--or no--weight...