Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pressure to force the International Olympic Committee to recognize them as the only representatives of China. They boycotted sessions attended by Nationalist China representatives, withdrew their athletes from events in which Nationalists were entered, finally stalked out of the I.O.C. itself. Soviet Russia and other Communist satellites added their weight. Last week, at the annual meeting in Munich, I.O.C. delegates caved in, voted to expel the Nationalists as the first step toward accepting Red China as "the representative of China." If the Nationalists wanted to reapply as representatives of Formosa, the I.O.C. indicated, they would be accepted. Snapped...
...talk (three of the 21 were also indicted on straight perjury charges). By that legal device, the Government hopes to put some of the top U.S. thugs out of circulation-certainly a worthy aim. Yet achieving that aim might prove impossibly difficult. Although circumstantial evidence is given substantial weight in conspiracy trials, it must nonetheless be proved that the Apalachin mobsters have refused to talk through group decision, not as individuals just trying to get out of trouble...
...give sculptural shape to 60 million cubic yards of earth excavated in the construction of new underpasses and highway cut-throughs. "Imagine it, a pile of earth two miles long, a hundred yards wide, and five stories tall!" he says, eyes glittering. At the other end of the weight scale, he is also starting new works in aluminum and balsa wood. "Why not?" he asks. "Anything can be sculpture, even air in balloons. The form is the main thing...
Although the testing did not involve any intercollegiate athletic contests, the undergraduates performed under conditions simulating these meets. Weight throwers, swimmers, and runners participated in the controlled experiment, and registered "improvement" following dosage...
...Beecher and Smith checked swimming times, running speeds, shot-putting, and weight-throwing in their study. Weight-throwers registered the greatest improvement, with a three to four per cent increase in performance after dosage...