Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Victims of far-advanced cancer enjoyed a marked "mood elevation," complained less of pain (thus needed fewer narcotics), gained weight, though iproniazid had no effect on their disease...
...Russian wheat so rotten that it turned the bread green, of Communist Chinese tea so full of impurities that it had to be thrown away. The flood of Russian literature that pours into Egypt these days has left the average Egyptian totally unmoved; most of it is sold by weight for wrapping papers. Cairo housewives particularly like a magazine called Russia Today for wrapping bananas. "It doesn't tear so easily," said one. Nearly every machine in Egypt is Western-made, and for lack of spare parts and the money to buy them, many are on the verge...
Since this was the first meet of the season for the varsity, coach Bob Pickett moved all his men up a weight classification, rather than force them to shed poundage this early in the season. Tom Myers and Dave Skeels produced the big points for the varsity, each registering five. Myers, a senior normally in the 115-pound class, non-existent in college wrestling, scored his five points on a default, when Dartmouth was unable to put an entrant on the mat in the 123-pound class...
Therefore, he will have Tom Myers, normally a 115 pound man, at 123. Although the senior has been a member of the squad for three years, and Pickett regards him highly, there has been no weight class...
Last year's freshman captain, John Watkins, who normally wrestles at 130 lbs., will open at 137. He could make the 130 lb. position one of the varsity's strongest. Pickett rates this weight one of the toughest classes for this season...