Word: lightest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...alone will handle more than 300 special trains, will detrain some 50,000 men at Manhattan, has appealed to their mothers and sweethearts not to stand around in the already crowded station. Longest haul: a three-train caravan from California's Fort Ord via Southern Pacific to Chicago. Lightest bottleneck: the two-track Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac, which is the only link between three Southern roads at Richmond and the Northern roads at Washington. Shuttling more than 150 loaded specials to the already crowded Washington gateway in four days, R.F. & P. train crews will earn juicy overtime checks...
Thaddeus Mroz, 167 pound guard, an all-scholastic from Salem High, is another experienced player. the heaviest man is charley Kidner, 230 pound guard, while the lightest man is Gershon Ross, who tips the scales at 161 pounds...
...things: 1) separates salt water from steel, 2) forms an oily, protective coating on the metal. It is electromagnetically attracted to steel and other electrically conducting metals, forms what are called polar films. There are four grades corresponding to film thicknesses ranging from .0002 to .0008 inch. The lightest Tectyl (thinnest film) can be used for cleaning machines of oil and dust, leaves a temporary lubricating and protective layer. The heaviest grade provides longtime protection for metals exposed to weathering...
...eight weeks of continuous bombing of London, last week was the lightest...
...Every day there were awful atrocities The lightest of the punishments inflicted was hanging head downwards for hours and 50 lashes on the soles of the feet." Not the account of a Nazi prison camp, but just one of the many experiences that make the life of Haratune Tashjian, a rug-dealer on the Square, read like a book...