Word: alton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...yards (time, 2:11.2) by Glenn Cunningham closely pressed by a fine Eastern runner, Harry Williamson of North Carolina; 2) a new U. S. outdoor record in the two-mile run by Don Lash (time, 9:10.6); 3) a new record by an American in the javelin throw by Alton Terry from Texas' Hardin-Simmons University (distance...
When Robert Wadlow of Alton, Ill. was 9 he could lift his 150-lb. father. By last week Robert Wadlow, 18, had become the biggest man in the world, but he could not lift even his small brother (see cut). He stands 8 ft. 3¾ in., weighs 390 Ib., wears size 39 shoes ($86 a pair). During the past year he gained 2 in. in height, continues to grow, may not reach his full growth until...
Smoking Before Breakfast. During his discussion of stomach ulcers, to which he believes certain people are predisposed at birth, Dr. Edward William Alton Ochsner of Tulane University declared: "Excessive use of tobacco, especially between meals, on an empty stomach, is dangerous. Very bad is smoking in the morning before breakfast...
Near Sanford, N. C., Mrs. Alton Jourdon, 26, who expected to have a baby in another month, last week went to the well in her farmyard to draw water. "When I bent over the well," she said after an accident which drew newspaper attention throughout the nation, "everything went black. The next thing I remember was being in the cold water, trying to keep afloat. Soon there were two of us, and I had to keep...
...Westwood, Calif., a 16-year-old girl, who said he had knocked her on the head with a wrench and raped her twice, got Thomas Alton Tully, son of Jim Tully (Jarnegan, Beggars of Life), arrested for the fifth time on charges of criminal assault, sentenced to from one to 50 years in jail...