Word: fronts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Human vanity would come to the front, too, in supporting the sceptics. The scorn shown by the sharks for Mr. Heilner may not have been the fault of the fish but of the man. Even sharks have their preferences, and Mr. Heilner might not have come up to their standards. And who is the man who would admit himself to have physical qualifications so poor that a shark would not think him worth the eating? Far better not to offer him the opportunity...
...University eight with A. A. Campbell '30 replacing J. De Wolf Hubbard '29 at No. 2 got away from the mark in front of the temporary bridge at 5 o'clock and rowing a 30-stroke beat reached the Harvard Bridge in 4 minutes 7 seconds. Pulling on to the last lap of the Henley distance, Captain John Watts '28 raised the stroke from that point on and sprinted the last part of the mile and three quarters distance, turning in a time of 10 minutes flat for the full course...
Flowers were in the arms of Lucrezia Bori and everywhere on the front of the stage. Applause was thundering. Miss Bori was bowing. The audience was standing up. Miss Bori tossed one of her bouquets to a woman standing in the second row of the orchestra. The woman caught it gracefully. She, too, bowed. The applause was getting louder and louder. Much of it was meant for the woman in the second row. Her name, as everyone knew, was Geraldine Farrar, 46, onetime darling of the diamond horseshoe...
...body growth are influenced by the front pituitary lobe. Overactivity of the lobe causes sexual precocity, great stature, large hands and feet, culminating in the giant of the circus. Underactivity causes sexual retardation, small hands and feet, small fat bodies culminating in the true dwarf. Doubtless Dr. Steinach fed extracts of the anterior lobe to his rats. Normal people gradually growing old will take another look at the circus side shows produced by pituitary glands run riot, before they try to stop Nature's course with Dr. Steinach's serum...
...first wife, as a result of which the modiste-wife told great tales of living at the rate of $225,000 per year. Had such colorful news been connected with the president of almost any other equally large corporation in the U. S., it would have become a front-page serial with installments whenever and wherever President Hartford moved. The Hartford uniqueness arises from the fact that, unlike most giant steel, motors, tobacco or food-selling corporations, the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company has practically no stock in the hands of investment houses or "the public." Hartfords and associates...