Word: weighted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...days. None of the other 24 patients, who were sore-free but considered sore-prone, developed decubitus ulcers after being on the waterbeds for an average of 27.5 days. The reason is simple. On a conventional mattress, a few pressure points bear most of the patient's weight; the pressure causes closing of capillaries, killing cells and resulting in sores at these points. On a water mattress, weight is evenly distributed, and no part of the body is subject to excess pressure...
With Harvard being at best naive, or reluctant to throw around the financial weight that its property ownership and endowment allowed, Crane and all other entrepreneurs looked across the street to Harvard Trust for fiscal leadership. Robert R. Duncan, president of the bank during the fifties, a man whom business people in the Square still remember as a "mover and a shaker," proved to be the perfect spearhead. Insurance man Dyer grumbles about the current leadership scene saying that if you asked him who could move things in Harvard Square today, ten minutes later he still wouldn't be able...
Once again it was Harvard's potent field contingent which led the squad to a 76-42 victory. Weightman Dan Jiggets copped a double win in the shot put and the 35-lb weight throw as Harvard swept each event...
...pays meticulous attention to the technical aspects of his game and scrupulously follows about a dozen checkpoints. Each round he continually reviews such things as the balance of his body weight, the pressure of his grip on the club, the rhythm of his backswing and the placement of his feet. He makes adjustments, if necessary, on the spot...
Homans cited a list of scientific papers on the effect of preservation in Formalin on tissue weight and, after establishing that Ward was familiar with none of them, suggested that the doctor was not qualified to speculate on the age of the fetus...