Word: weightedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senator Murray of Montana, Representatives Bradley of Pennsylvania and Sabath of Illinois, servants equally of organized labor and of the New Deal, dutifully drafted amendments to Colonel Harrington's law as dictated by Labor. Cutest question of the week was whether the President would throw his weight for or against what the New York Times termed "the aristocrats of Relief...
Sloths are not only undermuscled for their weight but also have an uncommonly low temperature. So Scientists Britton and Kline left their sloths out in the tropical sunshine long enough to raise their temperatures by five or six degrees, and the change was miraculous: they moved 50% faster. Similar speedups were also obtained by injections of adrenalin and prostigmin (an intestinal stimulant), and by scaring them. Subjected to such speedup techniques as this, the Virginia physiologists were pleased to report in Science last week that one thoroughly stimulated sloth hustled along the pole at the relatively dizzy pace...
Last week, after two years in Body-Builder Hoffman's gymnasium-lifting the bar bells he helped manufacture*-20-year-old Steve Stanko, standing 6 feet tall and weighing 220 Ibs., was recognized as the No. 1 strongman of the U. S. Competing in the national weight-lifting championships at Chicago, against the pick of some 1,000,000 U. S. residents who lift bar bells for exercise, Stanko made all the other contestants look like parlor performers...
...weight-lifting championships are decided in eight divisions, from 112 Ib. to heavyweight. Champions are determined by their ability in three events: the two-hand military press, the two-hand snatch and the two-hand clean & jerk-in each of which a bar bell is picked off the floor with both hands and raised overhead by different procedures. The total poundage heaved in the three lifts constitutes a contestant's score-unless a lift is nullified because of bad form...
...colossus was 1,000,000 francs, raised during the past two years by the energetic cure of Le Mas-Rillier. Holding the child high in her arms and gazing down, the Virgin of Le Mas-Rillier will face south over 100 miles of the French Alps. Her weight: 440 tons. Her height with foundation: 174 feet...