Word: weights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...layer of soft material an inch or so thick, but Dr. Eugene Shoemaker of the U.S. Geological Survey, a former believer in deep moon dust, said that he would not hesitate to step on the moon's surface. He was not sure, however, how much weight the moon's material would support...
...Atomsville, U.S.A., is strictly for small fry. So that parents will take the hint, the entrance is only five feet high. The little visitors can prospect for uranium on a world map, produce electricity by riding bicycles, shoot "neutrons" at "uranium atoms" on a pinball machine, and measure their weight in atoms. They seem to have plenty of fun, whether or not they learn very much about atoms...
Stomach contractions are generally unmistakable hunger signals to the stomach's owner. They are, that is, if the owner is a healthy man or woman in the normal weight range. Nature's built-in control mechanisms, reinforced by habit, are so strong that most people feel hungry three or four times a day, and when they do, they automatically eat the necessary amount of food. The trouble with most overweight men and women, say two Philadelphia researchers, is that their signaling system has somehow broken down. They feel hunger pangs, but they fail to get the message...
Ussery had reason to be sour as a boy in Vian, Okla. He and his four brothers, two sisters and mother lived on relief checks after his father left home. In the seventh grade, Robert Ussery, aged 13, dropped out and started pulling his own weight. He shined shoes in the winter, picked spinach in the summer-and grimly made up his mind to get shoes of his own and the kind of spinach you can spend. As soon as he figured out that 5 ft. 3 in. was as tall as he was going to be, he gave...
...Will the weight of envious mediocrities and malevolent mischance bring Stamper down, or will he be able to float his log booms down the river in time to meet his contract? The question sounds like rank melodrama, but it is not; Author Kesey's novel is big and clumsy, but its questions matter very much...