Word: fatness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bull knocked-out a farmer in the 5th round. The bull's name was Luis Angel Firpo of the Argentine. The farmers Christian name is unknown. But he is a North American and his sirname is Lodge. "Fat Farmer Lodge," he is called...
...That during the time Boss Murphy was interested in this fat British Government contract the Tammany men in Congress preserved a practically unanimous silence about Ireland, or about any other topic which the British Government felt sensitive about...
Although it is possible to control the weight of the body by diet and exercise, it is an everyday observation that some persons grow fat while eating relatively small amounts of food and apparently without relation to the amount of exercise they take. Others remain slender while consuming large quantities of candy, cream, milk, butter. Scientists are convinced that the body build is controlled to a considerable extent by heredity and other factors, such as some governing influence in the cells...
Died. Dr. Ernest Schweninger, 73, onetime personal physician to Chancellor Bismarck; at Munich. It is said he evolved a treatment which prevented Bismarck from growing fat...
...boll weevil destroy their crops, are beginning to wonder if the cold snap has reduced the insect ravage. In the past, an exceedingly cold winter in the eastern cotton belt has usually been followed by several years of good crops. The boll weevil, while apparently able to grow fat on the arsenic compounds with which the cotton plant is sprayed, cannot endure extreme cold weather. Whether the recent cold spell was long enough to seriously hurt the weevil is the real question...