Word: weightedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are several weaknesses in the present scoring method. First of all, it gives too much weight to the personal opinion of the referee, who, lacking hard-and-fast rules, usually sends close bouts into an overtime session. Also, under present rules, it is possible for a man to win without displaying any aggressive wrestling. Such a wrestler could gain an early time advantage and then merely stall or hang on for dear life until the end of the bout...
After Willie's death Editor Ellis made up an imaginary boy to edit his magazine for: Skeeter Bennet, a high-school sophomore 15½ years old, five feet four inches tall, weight 114 pounds. With 285,000 Skeeters reading The American Boy Editor Ellis bought out Youth's Companion...
Northwest chose the light-weight (4 oz.), nose-gripping oxygen masks invented by grey-haired Dr. Walter Meredith Boothby and two other doctors of the Mayo Clinic and already used to cure and prevent seasickness (TIME, Jan. 16). Last week, after demonstrating the oxygen sys tem in an overweather flight of four hours and 50 minutes from Minneapolis to Boston with nine passengers, Chief Pilot Mai Freeburg showed Northwest's new flying wrinkle to Boston and Manhattan scientists and newsmen...
Nothing slows up a champion like excess weight; nothing eats up gas like a heavy car. The Studebaker Champion has been trained down by smart engineering until it weighs 500 Ib. less than its rivals. Studebaker swears this has brought no structural weakness, no less safety. Most of the weight was saved in the engine and frame assembly, little taken from the body, in order to avoid the charge of being "tinny." Design is conservative-little chromium, headlights in fenders, no running boards. It has gearshift on the steering post, many standard Studebaker features such as hill-holder, rotary door...
...business. The firm of Davies, Richberg, Beebe, Busick & Richardson is one of the busiest in the Capital and one of its principal assets is Partner Richberg's erstwhile intimacy with Franklin Roosevelt. Although he still sees the President frequently, Donald Richberg's advice no longer carries much weight, for the anti-NRA team of Cohen & Corcoran, high in White House favor, are decidedly anti-Richberg...