Word: weightedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Galileo stood on a balcony of the Leaning Tower of Pisa and demonstrated that things of different weight fall at the same rate, that whatever is dropped first lands first. A similar law governs naval races. Nations which start in front tend to stay there. So when Japan last week announced that within six years she planned to have a fleet "equal to that of the strongest naval power," no one took her very literally...
Advantages claimed for this are prevention of moisture losses (hence weight losses), prevention of "freezer burns," long periods of storage for quick-frozen foods at higher (hence cheaper) temperatures. For its product Dewey and Almy has chosen the name "Cryovac," which means cold and empty...
...major war on the continent will surely involve her. President Roosevelt is moving in the direction of cooperation by drawing public opinion out of its traditional isolation, by plugging for repeal of the atrociously misnamed "Peace Act" of 1937, and, yesterday, by throwing the weight of the United States behind Britain and France even more emphatically than he did by the subsequently retracted "frontier statement." Those who hope for an eventual solution of European problems without another great war will heartily applaud his action...
...White is the sole hammer candidate. Other weight men, almost uniformly inexperienced, have been working out under the stadium--the discus men heating their platters on an oil stove...
Daughaday emerges from a highly successful season on the mat, having lost but two very close contests, one of which he made up for in the Easterns by beating his man decisively. For the second time, he took the third place position in the 165 pound weight in the Eastern championships. He comes from Winnotka, Illinois, and prepared for Harvard at the North Shore Country Day School...