Word: weighed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Professor Struik's assumption that a Communist is merely a persecuted non-conformist. It is unfortunate that last Wednesday evening it was left up to a young Yale law student to seek to give this problem the thinking it deserves. Mr. Lowenstein was alone in attempting to weigh the social good against the social ill that is likely to flow from a particular type of investigation. Professor Struik is not the sufficient reason, as Mr. Robertson in his simple mind conceives, for investigating colleges, Mr. Roberison and his kind are not, as Professor Struik in his confused mind conceives...
...describes so feelingly the beautiful brutality of nature unshackled is not interested in peace. A man whose passions run so high he strikes natives in his anger at the sea is not concerned with reason. A man who sets out to battle demons of the deep which out-weigh and outwit him, with only his wife and bull-dog for company, cares little for security. He is an adventurer, and his tale is one of adventure...
Rapture of the Depths. Cousteau perfected his seagoing lung in 1945. The key to its operation is an automatic compensating valve that adjusts the air supply to the diver's demand and the water pressure. The outfit weighs about 45 lbs. above water; submerged, the man and the machine when properly ballasted weigh hardly a pound...
...Sleeping two in a bed is bad for children, doctors reported to the British Ministry of Health. At six, bed-sharers weigh about two pounds less than single sleepers; at 14 the difference is nearly twelve pounds. And, they say, it has nothing to do with social level or diet...
...Chicago, Mrs. Margaret Schmidt, 38, won a trophy for having lost more weight in 1952 than any other member of TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly). The organization has 2,500 members (all women) in nine states. Chapter members meet once a week to weigh in (they pay fines if they have gained), maybe hear a doctor or nurse give helpful hints. They reduce only under doctor's orders. As a member of a Milwaukee chapter, Mrs. Schmidt, 5 ft. 3 in., had lost an even 100 lbs., was down...