Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blooded and personally anarchic, Wolfe recoiled at the restrictions of New England morals. He imagined that the entire weight of false convention was pressing in upon him. The Boston social structure seemed meaningless, and its products void of emotion, and therefore they were repugnant and disgusting. In Of Time and the River, which includes a rather distorted chronicle of the Harvard years, he mentions the coldness of New England, and his resultant inability to have a physical desire for any Boston woman...
Prospects for the future are uncertain, but concludes Leavitt, "Though I don't think we have quite last year's height and weight, it's still too early...
...hiring committees: 1) "The biggest thing is that other people think well of him." 2) "They're supposed to be able to teach, I guess." 3) "Our requirements are purely mathematical; no one gives a damn if you can teach." Scholarship appears to count for little more; the weight of scholarly articles is tallied, but seldom, committee members admitted, are the articles read. More than one university confessed that a socially presentable wife is one of the scholarly attributes it looks...
...widow of U.S. Air Force Captain Iven C. Kincheloe Jr., holder of an unofficial world's altitude record (nearly 24 miles), who died two months ago in the crash of an F-104 Starfighter (TIME, Aug. 4): a second child, first daughter; in Oakland, Calif. Name: Jeannine Frances. Weight...
...Ration produced a canned horsemeat mixture. More dogs are fed by the dry foods-Gaines (General Foods), Ralston Purina Dog Chow, Alber's Friskies (Carnation Co.), Gro-Pup (Kellogg Co.). But more poundage is sold in canned "wet" varieties, which made up 65% of the total dog-food weight bought last year, outsold every canned vegetable, used more tin cans than any other product outside of oil and beer...