Word: fats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...animals with which he experimented by running various kinds and amounts of electricity between fore and hind legs. Thus he caused the currents to traverse the animals' hearts. He had no need to experiment with human beings after he learned that an average-sized pig matches a fat little man in body weight and heart weight; an average sheep matches heart and body of a medium-sized woman. Having discovered those facts, Mr. Ferris learned that a couple of French physiologists in 1899 had found that a strong electric shock will stop fibrillation and restart the heart...
...eaten with seal oil-a salad! When an Eskimo catches a walrus he immediately opens the stomach and eats all of the clams. . . . The Eskimos eat the livers of practically all animals, except that of the white bear. . . . Only when in need does he consume very large quantities of fat. Blubber is not regarded as a delicacy...
Inexplicable to many is the ability of wrestlers night after night to heave each other around, bounce outside the ring onto concrete floors, go through seeming agonies. Rough & tough anyway and reinforced by several layers of fat, wrestlers have learned how to fall, when to fall, how to fake, when to call quits. Consequently they escape with few injuries beyond strains & bruises...
...Academy was last week spared such a ruckus as marked last year's show. Then, for the first time in history, an Associate Member of the Academy, woolly-haired Stanley Spencer, 43, got mad because the Hanging Committee had rejected his St. Francis and the Birds, showing a fat man in a barnyard, and The Lovers, showing a woman carrying an elderly man in her arms. He demanded the return of three other canvases which the Committee had accepted. When the Committee refused to return them, Stanley Spencer resigned from the Academy...
...assets of $1,894,000,000, Standard Oil thus demonstrated that its credit is nearly as good as that of the U. S. Government. One sound reason for that credit rating was revealed at the time the registration was filed: Last year Standard Oil earned $62,800,000, a fat increase over the $45,600,000 reported in 1934 and an astonishing recovery from 1932 when profits amounted to precisely 1? per share...