Word: conditioner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The outstanding bout of the evening was the 145 pound division tilt between Henry W. Kelley for Harvard and Greenwood for M.I.T. Both boys, although un-experienced, hit hard and often. Kelley's better condition gave him the decision.
Cause of his condition is hypertrophy of his pituitary gland. This endocrine body, situated under the brain, controls growth. Usually when it goes awry it affects the individual either at puberty or after he reaches maturity. Adolescent pituitary trouble makes the victim exceedingly tall and lanky. Later it makes the...
Physiology involved depends on the acid-alkaline condition of the body. Exertion causes the oxidation (burning) of blood sugar in the muscles. Product of that combustion is lactic acid which ordinarily changes into carbon dioxide and is exhaled. During intense effort too much lactic acid is produced in a short...
In Thurston, Md., Farmer L. I. Gregg's car became deeply mired in a road whose condition the neighbors had long deplored. Unable to extricate his car even with the help of a large and sympathetic crowd, Farmer Gregg dynamited it as a protest.
There was equal agreement that there is no static state of Utopia, that there should be no discussion of a possible condition of perpetual prosperity. Anything that is done is merely a stage in the development of civilization, and the term "the present economic system" was seldom hard.