Word: hundredweight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Linked up head and tail like circus elephants by their "escape ropes," each humping half a hundredweight of gear,* the muzzles of their rifles still taped to keep out gunk, the scouts took advantage of distant artillery salvos to mask their footfalls on the way back to a prearranged retrieval zone. Brown, in the lead, groped his way back through the blackness by memorizing the map and counting his own steps; each time his left foot hit the ground 67 times, he calculated the team had covered 100 meters. Back at the landing zone, Brown's whispered message filtered...
...consumer food increase." Of 50 newsmen, only a reporter for the New York Times interpreted this to mean that I was "pleased with a decrease in farm prices." The others understood that I was glad to see pork prices moderate from an abnormal high of $30 per hundredweight, or 122% of parity, for the reason that if the price had remained long at such a level it would have resulted in overproduction of hogs, a glutted market, and ultimately depressed prices to hog producers. Precipitous increases and declines in farm prices are always damaging...
...linear, chain and nautical), and a bewildering variety of dry and liquid measurements, ranging from drachms, grains and scruples to tuns, hogsheads and chaldrons. Port is measured in pipes (105 gals.), people in stones (14 Ibs.), pickled peppers in pecks (554.84 cu. in.). For good measure, Britain's hundredweight is 112 Ibs., not 100; the pennyweight has been unrelated to the weight of any penny for a century and a half, but equals one-twentieth of an ounce. Both ounces and quarts have entirely different values in different tables, and pounds can consist either of 12 oz. (troy...
Betting that there was not enough left of last fall's New England crop to take up the slack in East Coast markets, the bulls at the Mercantile Exchange contracted to buy 10,000 carloads of Maine potatoes at prices ranging from $1.95 to $3.20 per hundredweight for delivery May 14. By then, the bulls believe, potato prices will be up to $5 to $6 per hundredweight, leaving them a fat profit on their future contracts. The bears, who sold the bulls their contracts, are betting just as firmly that there are plenty of spuds in Maine and that...
...private chapel. Catholic Convert Margaret Clitherow was pressed to death and, according to a witness, "was in dying one-quarter of an hour. A sharp stone as much as a man's fist was put under her back; upon her was laid the quantity of seven or eight hundredweight at the least, which breaking her ribs caused them to burst through her skin.'' Altogether, from 1585 to 1680, about 360 British Roman Catholics were tortured and killed...