Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wrote Denham bluntly: ". . . You have now seen fit to request my resignation forthwith. In obedience to your wishes I feel I must comply." In a stiff little note of reply, the President explained that he saw no prospect of restoring a "harmonious relationship" between Counsel Denham and the board. Harry Truman accepted the resignation as of the close of the following business...
Prediction & Reaction. According to Dr. Sheldon, a blend of "morphs" himself, people's temperaments are apt to fit their physiques.* Endomorphs are likely to be amiable and slow; mesomorphs, vigorous and aggressive; ectomorphs, inhibited and cautious. Further, he has found his types particularly susceptible to certain diseases, e.g., mesomorphs to acute appendicitis. Usually, says Sheldon, a person's physique can help indicate what sort of reaction he will have under stress, what sort of diet he needs, what sort of work he will excel...
...founded the company* 38 years ago, was often willing to toss good profits overboard in order to try a new technological twist. He built the first all-steel auto body for Charles Nash (then president of G.M.) in 1912, made the first U.S. all-steel auto wheel to fit General John J. Pershing's staff cars during World War I. The manufacturing company expanded with the auto industry to the point where it grossed $24.7 million in 1925, but it never made much money (it actually lost $300,000 during the three boom years...
...girdle conscious." It hoped that its recumbent model-who, of course, was so well-formed that she had not the slightest need for a girdle-would make men take another look at their wives and hustle them around to the store for a tighter or, at least, better fit...
Noticeable Trends. Gossard has not only had to keep up with the changing fads of fashions but with the changing American female figure. In teen-age girls, Gossard has found a "very noticeable trend" towards bigger busts, smaller waists and bigger hips. And the company also has to fit figure variations in different parts of the U.S. Said Savard: "New York women have bigger busts. Dallas women are either taller or else they wear corsets down to their knees...