Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Wilson of G.M., whose birthplace was flanked by the houses of two locomotive engineers, still ignores the fact that locomotives have had their weights concentrated over the driving wheels for over 100 years to assure traction, while his product has engine weight over the front wheels that are used for steering...
...pound weight throw, with Osgoodby and Rubin doing the heaving for the Crimson, is the only other event where Mikkola gives the freshmen more than an even chance for victory...
Alex Rupp, in the 128 class, has been getting almost too heavy for his position lately. Chafee says Rupp's weight-gaining pounds home the need for some more lightweights on the team. But that doesn't mean that Bill Joyner at 121 and Chip Carter at 136 aren't a feather in any coaches...
...competition, Boo Morcom, "the barefoot boy from New Hampshire," won the pole vault championship with a hoist of 14 feet; Rudy Forbert, a barrel-chested Tufts junior, took the broad jump at 21 feet, 6 1/3 inches; and Olympic hammer thrower Bob Bennett won the regular 35-pound weight throw with a loft of 52 feet, 1 7/3 inches...
Felton, a member of the New York Athletic Association, was ineligible for the New England weight throw. Now a student at the Business School, Sam tried in the special weight event to break Niles Perkins' world record of 58 feet, 7 1/2 inches...