Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nearly invisible, could be only faintly heard, and their bombs were preceded by no warning scream, such as an artillery shell gives. There was just a "swiss" and instantaneously thereafter the crash of 600 pounds of bomb tearing down through floor after floor of a building by its own weight, then the dull, shuddering, colossal detonation from the cellar. In accordance with Douhet, the objective was considered to be the whole city: the shattering of the morale of its people and the Leftist Government. Thus no particular targets were aimed at and every quarter of Barcelona, slums, palatial avenues, business...
...Seversky Super-Clipper,'' at least on paper, would fly farther faster than any other, carry nearly twice the payload P. A. A. asked for. Its specifications: weight about 250,000 Ib.; five propellers driven by eight motors developing 18,400 h. p.; cruising speed a flat 250 m.p.h.; a wing 250 ft. long and triple fuselage accommodating 120 passengers, crew of 16, a dining room for 50, observation deck, cocktail bar, promenade, 70 toilets and a lifeboat. Pontoons serve also as shock absorbers, retract in flight into the hulls of the two main fuselages. The whole ship...
Bill Shallow has steadily improved since his Freshman year. This winter he showed prospects of contributing at least three points in the Quad Meet by placing in the weight throw. He was decidedly off form in the Quad Meet however and did not place. The following week, however, in the I.C.A.A.A.A. he captured second place by throwing the 35 lbs. 51 ft. 10 3/4 in. He is now throwing the hammer every afternoon behind the Stadium in preparation for the spring season...
...lighter Crimson team, which has been practicing for three weeks, is composed of experienced players who hope to overcome the weight advantage by speed and hard play...
Bureau statisticians arrived at the figure by multiplying an average weight loss of two pounds by the 90 per cent of the student body believed to engage in intensive study before examinations...