Word: lightweights
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...themselves. Would the Post Office Department, for example, have been able to find the hundreds of millions of dollars for the development costs of a device as visionary as the airplane?" Hafstad pointed out that the submarine has proved wholly useless for all but war like purposes. But the lightweight diesel engine now dominating U.S. railroads was developed for use in submarines. The present furious research on reactors for propelling naval vessels or even the work on the wholly "useless" atomic bomb may yield similar peaceful dividends...
...only 2½ ft. in diameter, and weighs only 11,000 lbs. According to an observer on board the Norton Sound, the rocket launched from the ship carried a 1,000-lb. payload of instruments for studying high-altitude cosmic rays. It might have carried a bomb (perhaps a lightweight-model atom bomb...
...Derby, Connecticut, Yale's 150-pound crew beat the Crimson and Princeton to win the Goldthwaite Cup, the Big Three's lightweight crew's championship. The Elis also won the J.V. and freshman races, all of which were rowed over the Henley distance as was the varsity contest. Harvard placed third in the varsity race and second in the other...
...records. "For every one who takes the record home to play," he says, "two buy it for the pleasure of breaking it to bits." If there was any truth in the hypothesis, a great many U.S. citizens were smashing up Bob Merrill's own records last week. One lightweight little number, If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd 've Baked a Cake, has topped the hit parade three weeks in a row, with record sales passing the 1,000,000 mark...
Harry Pulliam Cain, Republican from Washington, 44, tall, lean, friendly-and a lightweight. As early as 1947, he urged withdrawal of occupation forces from Germany, and an end to the denazification program. On occasion, he subjects the Senate to hammy theatrics and wild filibusters. Some of his Senate colleagues would be inclined to rate him as no more than a noisy nonentity if he were not something more bothersome-the real-estate lobby's warmest friend...