Word: dilling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Supermen cannot be made by eating gelatin as some recent advertisements have intimated, according to Dr. D. B. Dill of the Fatigue Laboratory, which last year carried out an extensive experiment with the effects of gelatin on the strength and endurance of athletes...
...purpose of the Laboratory's work was to check the early claims of a gelatin sales organization which indicated that gelatin could increase a man's capacity for work by 200% or more. Dr. Dill explained that "if gelatin has such effects on all men, we must recast the theories and practices of physical training upon which rest many techniques of sport, of war, and of industry." It would mean that if a man could run a mile in four minutes, he could, with the help of gelatin, do what no man has yet done run a mile...
Washington. Despite Franklin Roosevelt's professed disinterest in State races this year, Administration forces worked like nailers to put up a New Deal slate in the primary. They succeeded. Their two top men, rugged Monrad C. Wallgren (for Senator) and Gubernatorial Nominee Clarence C. Dill, drew two rugged Republican opponents: Gubernatorial Draftee Arthur B. Langlie, aggressive Seattle Mayor, and ex-Democrat Stephen F. Chadwick, American Legionnaire, who is riding the Willkie coattails hard...
...same reason: sub-estimate attendance. This year, both fairs reopened under new management, new policies. Banker Harvey Dow Gibson took over New York's World's Fair of 1940, cut prices and stressed "Fun!! Fun!! Fun!!" at Flushing Flats. Chamber of Commerce President Marshall Dill and Vice President William Monahan took over San Francisco's Golden Gate International Exposition, cut prices and sloganed: "Let's have a good time" at Treasure Island. Last week the Dill slogan looked a little better than the Gibson...
Irish-born Dr. Kennedy, head of the Neurological Department of Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital, served four years with the British Army in World War I, is a cousin of Lieut. General Sir John Greer Dill, Chief of Staff of the British Army. In a florid, passionate speech on "Science, Civilization and Faith," he lashed out at a group of 500 eminent scientists, headed by Physicist Arthur Holly Compton of Chicage, who had sent a "peace resolution" to President Roosevelt...