Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Washington (Roy Seivers) and Kansas City (Bob Cerv) are also in the American League and their battle for last place should prove entertaining, with the Senators having the weight of tradition on their side...
Despite the interest that her apron holds this time, an optimistic reader leaves Mother Advocate hoping she can put on weight. Slight as a pamphlet, Mother Advocate has only 20 pages, five fewer than the number of editors. She inspires the memory, in the mind of a reader 35 cents poorer, of a line commonly attributed to T.S. Mathews: "You held me on my tippy-tip-toes, but you never kissed...
...drilling cannot be done on the continents because they are great rafts of granite "floating" in deeper plastic material. The granite is too thick (20 miles) to drill through. Oceanic islands are also ruled out as drilling sites; their weight has pressed the Moho to an impossible depth. The best place to drill is the floor of the great ocean basins. The floor may be three miles beneath the ocean's surface, but the Moho lies only three or four miles deeper, under a thin skin of sedimentary deposits and a layer of basalt...
Last year Mao's inspired athletes claimed seven world records in sports ranging from swimming to weight lifting. One rowing group became so incensed by "U.S. imperialist aggression against our territory of Taiwan" that it bettered the winning time of the U.S. pair-oared shell with cox in the 1956 Olympics, even though the Red rowers had trained only a month over the 2,000-meter distance...
...Apache were making their last stands. The first big gold and silver strikes were made in Colorado and Nevada, and the no-good and the adventurous went west by the thousands "to see the elephant." Up from Texas ("The whole south end of Texas was sinking under the weight of its cows") the longhorns came plodding to Kansas railheads, 2,000 and 3,000 to a herd...