Word: weightedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dislike the smashing tactics the army is using to achieve it. His unpalatable task since the China war started has been to square aggressive Japan with a U. S. sympathetic to China. Dashing about making polite apologies and good-will appearances has so worn down the Ambassador that his weight dropped to 92 lbs., and four months ago he was forced to take a prolonged rest cure at Hot Springs, Va. Back in Washington last week, Ambassador Saito, whose wife likens him to a tireless, leaping carp, was reported to have received an urgent Tokyo cable. Premier Konoye, stuck...
Exeter has one advantage in that it has already played one game, against Tilton, winning 6-0. The Yardlings, however, have the edge in weight and experience. Chief threat which they will have to face is sturdy Don Bowersox, Exonian center and captain...
...Yardlings on the basis of weight and experience should have the edge over Exeter, but the Academy team has already played one game with Tilton, having beaten them 6-0, so the outcome of the encounter remains a hard one to predict...
Thus, had the bombing of Barcelona continued at this maximum intensity for even one full week, both the total weight of bombs dropped and the total casualties in this city would have considerably exceeded what all England suffered in its worst 95 weeks of actual war. Measured thus coldly, the "horrors of bombing'' have increased in 20 years nearly...
...great many more people can be killed by a given weight of high explosive bombs than by the same weight of gas bombs. . . . Gas was not used against the towns [in Spain] for this reason...