Word: weightedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entirely, modifying capital gains levies almost out of sight; Bob Doughton's House Committee was equally adamant about saving the Administration's face by preserving the first at least in principle, keeping a fair share of the second. Effect of the Byrnes Committee report was to lend weight to arguments on the Senate side. Two days after its release, the two tax committees met for the seventh time, settled down to thresh the matter out behind closed doors. The doors remained closed for six hours except when they opened briefly to let out the dozen...
...secrets are really kept secret in peacetime but none is likely to be revealed at a public parade witnessed by foreign military attachés and foreign correspondents. Displayed for the first time in public, however, were nine heavy tanks of new design, from 18 to 25 tons in weight, varying widely in traction and armament. Still lighter than the 50-ton tanks used by Russians and French in Leftist Spain, heavier than the Italian and German affairs of about ten tons used in Rightist Spain, these new experimental tanks were apparently designed to meet the military criticism that...
...like a three-alarm fire in dim-lit, sleepy Coyoacán as floodlights blaze on the pastel blue walls. Trotsky's three secretaries carry pistols, practice target shooting in their spare moments. The Great Exile himself parks a big revolver on his desk as a paper weight whenever he sits down to write. Small, white-haired Mrs. Trotsky goes about her housework packing a Webley .25. Ironically, the immediate benefits of these safeguards for Trotsky, the foe of private property, have gone to the landlords in the vicinity who have upped their rents because the day & night police...
...Harvard airmen will fly easily maneuverable two-seated Fleet biplanes, medium weight training ships. They have a slower landing speed than heavier and more advanced planes and are extremely versatile. Since there will be no speed event, as all events involving hazard were ruled out at the National Intercollegiate Flying Club Conference in Washington this April, they are splendidly adapted for this meet...
Squibb and Page got off to a good start in the runoff after ten other boats had been eliminated and used their great weight to good advantage in sailing close to the wind on the long beat up to the finish line. The runners-up, a poor fourth at the start, gained steadily running before the wind...