Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Greenhood, whose home is at Wellesley Hills, prepared at Nedham High and lives in Lowell House where he is a member of the House Committee. His age is 20, his height five feet, eleven inches, his weight 170. He is the first diver ever to lead the Crimson tank forces...
...power needed to maintain such a velocity would be 370 watts or about one-half horsepower -which is, as Dr. Langmuir exclaims, "a good deal for a fly!" Also, the fuel requirement would be so high that the insect would have to consume more than its own weight of food every second...
...Douglas' progress and convinced by Tomlinson's tests that upper-air flight was feasible, T. W. A. became sold on Boeing's idea of a big passenger fuselage for the well-tested wings and tail of the Air Corps' B-17 bomber, ordered six. Its weight, too, would be just within the "Big Five" agreement-42,672 lb. When this order became known T. W. A.'s competitors howled that the "spirit" of the agreement had been broken...
...Varsity and 150-pound crews, there are enough to man two or three more shells than were in the water last season. Coach Valentine has special hopes for the Freshman crew this year because he reports that he has two good Freshman crews--every man over 180 pounds in weight and more than six feet tall...
...Weight, speed, endurance and previous experience necessarily count in this first game of the season. The Cantabs, at the end of their season, will have all of these. An International match, the game on the 26th in the Stadium will have 45-minute halves! Since there are no time-outs and no substitutions in rugby, the Crimson will have to field fifteen men who are fast, who know the game well, and are able to take...