Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...64th birthday last week, Harry Truman's weight was a perfect 174, his blood pressure normal, his metabolism good. His hair was greying, his face showed the years; but his physician, Brigadier General Wallace Graham, pronounced him as fit as ever...
...movie producer when war came, and squat, shrewd George Glass, known as "an honest pressagent," took options on 30 of the late Ring Lardner's stories. They picked The Big Town for their first picture, changed the title and went looking for a star to fit the script. What comedian could handle Lardner's light touch without seeming all thumbs? Screen Plays eyed radio's Henry Morgan. After reading the story and a 100-page "treatment," Morgan said: "You're the first guys who had the brains to imagine that I might be interested in what...
...downstream for the start of the last heat of the afternoon, Winthrop's stroke "Dunc" McCollester broke his oar in a fit of youthful exhuberance, delaying the race till the late supper hour. It proved to be an ill omen for hapless Dudley's octet, which chopped its way past the white flag roughly a minute after Winthrop...
...Whereas the Faculty of Harvard College, with unprecedented barbarity and oppression, saw fit, in their asinine wisdom, to administer public admonition to the Sodality for absenting themselves from Cambridge during the whole night, serenading, Resolved not to play at the coming exhibition." Apparently a full punch bowl mellowed the members for they played at the concert nevertheless...
...armed services merger would be a neat, well-rounded military program. Congress intended it to be that way; when it wrote the merger act, it specifically directed the new Military Establishment to produce such a program. Congress, so most people thought, would merely take the program and fit it into budgetary limits. Everything was going to be in apple-pie order...