Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which a triangle represented a sail, a jigging line the sea. In his recent work, extremes of this kind have given place to more effective economies: strokes of color and ragged whites which sometimes fail but more often succeed in bringing to life the "fighting" forces of wind, weight, water and light which he feels in landscape. Marin works over each picture with every watercolorist's trick, "scrubbing in" colors with the brush, tipping the paper for even floods of wash, using his thumb, rags, blotters to get the effect he wants...
...could do what it liked with its own roads. Last week South Carolina considered resolutions to show that it was not entirely unreasonable. Over 2,400 miles of paved highways, 16 ft. to 20 ft. wide, it has long limited the width of motor trucks to 90 in., their weight to 20,000 lb. Only in four other States-all in the South-is the gross weight of trucks fixed so low; nowhere but in South Carolina is there such a narrow (90 in.) width limit. Most U. S. trucks are 96 in. wide, though Rhode Island and Connecticut permit...
...something else. It launched an investigation to find out whether the sudden change in odd-lot trading was due to an increase in odd-lot short sales caused by professional speculators seeking to avoid the new restriction of round-lot short selling which went into effect Feb. 8.* Lending weight to SEC's suspicion was the fact that short sales have risen from 7% to 10% of the odd-lot total since the new restrictions went into effect...
...whether it will now become an arena for indiscriminate strife, or an enlightened and diversified forum. "Every city and house divided against itself shall not stand," and the Student Union should put its house in order before it ceases to be of value and falls of its own weight...
...weight thrower, a high jumper, and the mile relay team were the only Harvard men to place in the I. C. A. A. A. A. track meet held in Madison Square Garden Saturday night...