Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...making any decision the undergraduate opinion must also be considered. Yet when this broadcasting issue was raised before the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports at its recent meeting, the Council voted in favor of it, and thus lent the weight of undergraduate opinion towards this proposal...
...year-old chief pilot of the Heinkel Airplane Works, had just flown a two-motored Heinkel-Benz airplane 621 miles, with a payload of 2,204 lb-(1,000 kg.) at a speed of 313 m.p.h.-46 m.p.h. faster than young Mussolini's record for the same weight at the same distance; leaving Bruno for the moment with only the 1,100 (500 kg.) and 4,409 lb. (2,000 kg.) payload marks. When the world press published these facts about supposedly good friends, both Germany's Air Ministry and the Heinkel Works closed their doors to reporters...
...inauguration last week of the third year of Pan American's Pacific air mail service, the new Martin Ocean Transport claims two points of advance in air travel. It is the first fully commercial airplane capable of negotiating the Atlantic nonstop; for its size, weight and power, its payload is more than that of any other transport. Designer Martin already has on his drawing boards plans of a 118,000-lb. ocean transport, which will carry 100 passengers, sleep 66. Reported purchaser: American Export Air Line's, prospective affiliate of American Export Lines, whose ships will fly between...
...cheese. Evaporated to crystals, it is pulverized and dissolved into a molasses consistency, then forced through spinnerets like macaroni, passed through a hardening chemical bath, cut into fibres of any desired length. From 100 pounds of skim milk come 3.7 pounds of casein which converts to the same weight of lanital.* Readily dyed, it can be distinguished from wool only by experts, is mothproof...
Competitors must weigh in at the Gymnasium before their bouts, and all weights must be approved by the manager or assistant manager. An allowance of three pounds over the regular weight will be made...