Word: gibsonized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...statistically allows for more freak births. Dysfunction of glands similarly causes gigantism, which seems to be less common than dwarfism. Giants and dwarfs are as a rule sterile. Henrietta Maria, queen to King Charles I of England was curious about the fertility of her dwarfs, ordered her pet, Richard Gibson to marry another pet, Anne. The Gibsons together measured 7 ft. 2 in. They had nine children, of whom five lived. The five attained normal stature. Queen Catherine de Medici in a spirit of scientific research forced all her court dwarfs to mate. All were barren...
...more include Andrew William Mellon, his brother Richard, the late Ambassador to France Henry White, Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, the late Percy R. Pyne. Of $50,000 or more: Henry and Edsel Ford, the late Samuel Mather of Cleveland and his half-brother William, John Hays Hammond, Mrs. Gibson Fahnestock, the late William Amory Gardiner...
Band Wagon. At the annual banquet last week of the Yale Daily News (see p. 28), Manhattan Banker Harvey Dow Gibson advised today's college graduate to look upon Business as a professional or graduate school where he will study trade for at least three years. Let him have patience, reflect that parents were once willing to pay firms to take in and train their sons. Depression has made business wary, efficient-"only the best men have been retained and the way to advancement is open to the best men without favoritism. Today there is the opportunity of learning...
Among other features this movie covers woman's movements, crime waves, prohibition, and the Disarmament Conference at Geneva. A sound film, this internationally-centered set of reels includes brief addresses by such men as Sir Robert Cecil, Curtius, Ghandi, Gibson, Henderson, Hitler, Ramsey MacDonald, Mussolini, and George Bernard Shaw, among others. In the portion of the reels dealing with prohibition, La Guardia and Mrs. Sabin, of wet affiliations, hold forth...
...Gibson declared that "the following weapons are of a peculiarly aggressive value against land defenses: tanks, heavy mobile guns and gases, and as such should be abolished...