Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trouble with the way this style is working out so far this season is a lack of weight. Because it involved such a long stroke, it is a tiring way of rowing and the Lion oarsmen haven't got too much power. They must make up in form and oarsmanship what they lack in poundage...
...Hindenburg" was the largest airship ever built, being 811 feet in length and having a gas volume of 7,063,0000 cubic feet. Its weight was 200 tons. The American ships "Akron" and "Macon" were both 785 feet long. The "Akron" crashed in a storm off New Jersey in 1933, causing the death of 73 people. The "Macon" fell off California in 1935, only losing 2 lives...
...each dance Miss Mader performed the conventional pan (bow), lifting her arms shoulder high, thrusting her right foot forward and putting the weight on her left. A large sprinkling of Hawaiians shouted interminable hikis, the equivalent of "bravo." People who do not understand Hawaiian were most amused by Miss Mader's Roosevelt Dance which she sang in English. When the President visited Hawaii three years...
...drug fiends. With evident gusto, dapper Dr. Yerkes told the philosophers how he had made morphine addicts of two male apes eight years old. After the animals became reconciled to having their flesh pricked by dummy syringes, they were daily given one milligram of morphine per kilogram of body weight and the dose was increased to four milligrams (a much smaller intake than that of human addicts). Symptoms of addiction were increased "grooming" (scratching, skin picking, hair plucking), restlessness, nocturnal activity, gastric and bowel disturbances, slight loss of weight, increased amiability and apparent sense of wellbeing. Curiously, the pupils...
...fleet consisted of four cruisers, three torpedo boats. One cruiser, the Cristóbal Colón, was minus her main battery, it having been still in the foundry when she had to leave Spain. The whole Spanish cruiser force could not throw a broadside equal in weight to that of the U. S. battleship Oregon, which belonged to an armada of four battleships, one cruiser, two armed yachts...