Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with Red, so Cally called off their wedding. Climax in the contest between love for Cally and the job of being a lineman came in the power-house yard on a snowy night, with the ends of hot wire, broken by the cold and the weight of ice on them, flapping in the wind till the high voltage lines nearby, on which they struck, short-circuited like torches, with the blast of a million electric chairs, That was when Slim, after Red's body fell across the wires and exploded like a fuse, left Cally and went...
Other questions the questionnaire asks: Are you married? How much weight have you put on? What is your profession? In few instance are many answers much more one way than the other...
Finding that the reasons given for the dismissal contained in newspaper reports, "contrary to the weight of evidence and hence not valid reasons for the dismissal of Professor Davis," the committee urged his reinstatement...
...must henceforth stop housing workers in the temporary quarters set up in the Chicago plants. This is because the Company is "violating city health and building ordinances", a statement so palpably absurd, when the temporary living conditions established inside the plants are examined, that it falls of its own weight. Further the company cafeteria is now supplying gratis better food and more of it than the men themselves would probably buy. Mayor Kelly's action is simply what one expects from a prominent demagogic leader, and the C. I. O's expression of "appreciation" is really unnecessary when one remembers...
...first articles on benzedrine sulfate appeared in the May 22 issue of the Medical Association Journal. The Journal states that the proper dose of 10 to 30 milligrams per day must be carefully regulated to the individual and an overdosage results in insomnia, lassitude, fatigue, loss of weight, a state of increased irritation, surliness, constipation, tension of the muscles, abdominal cramps, overactivity, headache, forgetfulness, confusion, inability to concentrate, and in certain individuals a tendency toward dementia praecox...