Word: weights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...knows the les sons of Mexico's disastrous ejido system, does not intend to splinter the big. highly productive cotton and sugar estates into thousands of tiny plots, each barely able to support its owner. Instead he will break up only those that do not carry their weight, and satisfy the peasants' land hunger by opening vast new areas that have never seen a plow. "Right now," he says, "we have only one-half an acre of land under cultivation, per capita. We must double that to one acre...
Esso engineers admit that their fuel cell is too heavy and feeble at present to have many practical applications, but they are confident that it will soon lose weight and gain power. Fuel cells may never compete with such large sources of electricity as coal-burning power stations, but they are candidates for smaller jobs in which convenience and efficiency are important. They may soon find a use in space, contributing valuable water as a byproduct along with their electricity. On earth they may provide cheap, quiet electricity for homes, weather stations or microwave repeaters beyond the reach of commercial...
...until after Christmas that the two heaviest freshman wrestlers, Bill Malugen and Dave Goins, joined the team. Before that time, the heavyweight and 191-pound positions were filled by lighter wrestlers, which forced nearly every team member to compete one and sometimes two classes above his own weight...
...were too ill to be saved. But in the other twelve, both surface infection and systemic infection (blood poisoning)-major causes of death in burns-were for all practical purposes eliminated. Equally important from the doctors' viewpoint, the patients lost only a negligible amount of body fluids or weight and did not need special diet supplements or plasma...
...single system, that system is sure to spread over much of Africa and parts of Asia too. The chances of a firm verdict from Vienna look slim, however, because any committee finding must be unanimous; moreover, a decision would not bind any nation to go along. Yet the weight of majority opinion is expected to influence some vacillating nations to adopt one system or another, and Western Europe is so sharply split that the Soviet bloc will probably tip the Vienna vote...