Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While everybody else was watching the side show, the Japanese were tending to business. Masashi Ouchi set a world record in weight lifting, hoisting a total of 1,003 lbs. to win the middleweight championship. Japan swept all 28 gold medals in swimming, dominated the track and field events, won first places in everything from badminton to bicycling. When the games finally ended, with a five-gun salute and the singing of Auld Lang Syne, the cool-headed Japanese had captured 218 gold, silver and bronze medals-167 more than their closest competitors...
...performance of conventional liquid propellants, it has some distinct advantages. It does away with the necessity of disposing of its major ingredient in space, and scientists calculate that because a MONEX W rocket will manufacture part of its fuel in flight, it will actually have less lift-off weight than a conventionally fueled rocket designed for the same long-range mission...
Rocket Research scientists are prepared to go even farther to pare down the orbital weight of a MONEX W rocket. They plan to use a soluble cement to bond powdered metal into such structures as special instrument panels that are used only in the early stages of the flight. When their purpose has been served, the structures will be tossed into the blender. The moist wastes will dissolve the cement, returning the metal to its powdered form and making it a suitable ingredient for MONEX...
...that way. The pound and penny first appeared about the time of King Offa in the 8th century. They were originally named for the Roman libra and denarius (hence the still used signs of ? and d), but the libra eventually evolved into the pound, because it was worth that weight in silver. Similarly, it took 240 pennies to make a pound because that was the number of pennies that weighed a pound.* Shillings joined Offa's awful system in the 16th century, and that basically formed the current currency setup-though such denominations as the florin (2 shillings), half...
...Eventually, of course, the pound as a British weight measure was replaced by the stone (14 Ibs.), but that is another story (TIME, June...