Word: frankness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...answer, say two of the Adventists' doctors in the A.M.A. Journal, may be found in their tendency to follow a modified vegetarian diet and their strict adherence to a regime of exercise and good hygiene. The major explanation for the Adventists' better health, say Dr. Frank R. Lemon and Dr. Richard T. Walden, is the fact that they do not smoke...
...standard Babylonian revels. Captain Sanjar, who has dallied with the Princess Barbára, is ordered to trial by her father, the King. He must open one of two doors behind which lurk, respectively, a hungry tiger and a nubile damsel. The skit preserves the tricky non-ending from Frank Stockton's The Lady or the Tiger?, but it scarcely matters. To fill in the non-beginning and the non-middle, the dancing girls thrash around like palm trees in a tropical hurricane. A hurricane has a better plot...
After he turned 21, Kresge gave up teaching for selling. As a traveling drummer in tinware, he saved $8,000 in commissions by the time he reached 30. One of his customers was Dimestore Pioneer Frank W. Woolworth, to whom Kresge sold a sizable order of tinware. When Kresge noticed that Woolworth's 19 stores were profitably run on a cash-only basis, the traveling salesman thought he saw his future. In 1897, despite a financial panic, he used his savings for a half interest in stores in Memphis and Detroit run by another five-and-dime pioneer, John...
...sophomores, Steve Bittner and Frank Shorter, are the main reasons for Yale's success. Bittner is another speed-ster (4:12 mile) who will give you trouble in the home stretch if he can smell...
McLoone, senior Jim Smith, junior Bob Stempson, and captain Jim Baker (with an injured ankle) will be expected to carry the load for Harvard. They will have to place in the top fifteen for the Crimson to win. And, just as important, Dick Howe, Joe Ryan, and Frank Sullo-way will have to score displacement points for Harvard by breaking up the opposition's secondary from 15th to around 20th place...