Word: weight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Average Weight of Line...
Britain's schoolchildren grapple for years with three different and conflicting methods of measuring weight (avoirdupois, troy and apothecaries' table), three ways of measuring length (linear, chain and nautical), and a bewildering variety of dry and liquid measurements, ranging from drachms, grains and scruples to tuns, hogsheads and chaldrons. Port is measured in pipes (105 gals.), people in stones (14 Ibs.), pickled peppers in pecks (554.84 cu. in.). For good measure, Britain's hundredweight is 112 Ibs., not 100; the pennyweight has been unrelated to the weight of any penny for a century and a half...
...Vecchio from the Army's Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey. By catching the shells in midflight, they are able to assess the damage caused by firing. Hopefully, their observations will help them to prescribe the proper design and materials to maintain the difficult hairline balance between strength and weight. By last week 40 shells had been fired, and new alloys and casing designs have already been contrived for the Army's 155-mm. shells...
Glimp saw some significance in the fact that the median verbal score of the bottom ten per cent of the class dropped 23 points, from 581 to 568. He said the drop was evidence that the Admissions Committee was giving more weight to to "non-objective" factors in selecting candidates and that Harvard was getting "more really strong candidates in the low range of SAT scores...
This brings as back to Cambridge, where Harvard is meeting Brown. In say normal setting this game should be a Crimson romp. Brown has nothing but Jim Dunda at quarterback, Jan Moyer at halfback, and a little weight in the line...