Word: weightedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...differs from current labor forays into politics such as that of the C. I. O. in Detroit (see p. 17), by being less headlong, throwing its weight strategically behind candidates already in the field in preference to putting up its own. Last week this policy was emphasized by A. L. P. bigwigs convening at the Claridge to lay plans for the future. This year A. L. P.'s new assemblymen will be expected to plump for a fairly well defined platform including: 1) ratification of the child labor amendment, 2) a "little" Wagner-Steagall housing bill for New York...
...feet, speed it through the skies at an estimated 300 m.p.h. Many of the machine's details are still secret but revealed this week were Airacuda's wing spread, 70 ft. (25 ft. less than the Douglas DC-3), its length 58 ft. and its weight loaded around 15,000 Ibs. From each of the fighting snouts ahead of the engines bristle big 37 millimetre (about 1½ in.) guns (see cut) that throw 1 Ib. high explosive shells two miles. Cartridges come in clips of five, one in each clip painted with phosphorus to burn...
Eliot and Adams each placed two men in the select company, the Elephants being Carter H. White '38, hard driving fullback, and tackle Robert A. Uihlein, Jr. '38, whose six feet four inches in height and 203 pounds in weight made him the biggest man in House ball. Husky Paul G. Counihan '39 won the other tackle berth for Adams, and George Akerson, Jr. '39 got the nod at left end for the Gold-coasters...
...week ago the shot put, the pole vault, 35-pound weight throw, and the high jump were held in the Carey Cage. And today Coach Neufeld conducted the broad jump, the 80-yard high hurdles, the 120-yard low hurdles, the 160-yard dash, the 80-yard dash, the half-mile...
Cadillac has five 1938 lines: Cadillac Sixty, V8, Sixteen, Fleetwood, LaSalle. Only new motor is in the Sixteen, which has 1937's 185 h.p. but less weight and size. Fleetwood claims the world's roomiest body; Sixty has no running boards. All models have gear lever on the steering post, but shifting is not automatic...