Word: girth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Maximum weight will be five pounds, and the extra-strong cartons required cannot exceed 15 inches in length, nor 36 inches in length and girth combined...
...rejecting Holman and electing Morse, many Oregonians were convinced that they had rendered a double public service. Holman, big of girth, white of hair, loose of lip, distinguished himself in Congress mainly by his absence from roll-calls (he was absent when Congress declared war, and missed 148 out of 239 roll-calls in seven months of 1942). But he managed to be present enough to distinguish himself in the making of intemperate attacks. These he delivered in a gravely falsetto voice which the Oregon Journal likes to call "a high tenor of protest. " High spot of the campaign came...
...corn grows tall in Iowa, almost everybody knows hearty, conscientiously corny Ray Anderson. In blizzards and blistering heat, through muck and manure, he has been rambling its countryside for 17 years, helping build for the Cedar Rapids Gazette a circulation of 45,000, for himself a 242-lb. girth and a reputation as a top U.S. newspaper farm page editor. This week 55-year-old Anderson moved to broader pastures. His new beat: the rural Midwest, as a roving editor of Farm Journal and Farmer's Wife (TIME...
Grumbled Ohio's Senator Taft: "There is hardly a man under 45 who is able to make plans for the future." (Taft's age: 52.) Essayist E. B. White wrote in Harper's: "We are the tough old campaigners-a little puffy round the girth strap, faltering a little at the top step of the long stairway, subsisting on bicarbonate of soda and ephedrine sulphate, our pocketbooks lined with silver and our back teeth with gold, but ready to go forth again to distant peninsulas against old enemies...
...paper for several hours, and, in times of emergency, turning the pages of a book. To supply the small amount of energy needed to perform that work they have been stuffing their faces with tremendous quantities of food and drink. The result has been an appalling growth of the girth-rate. At present there is so much excess weight on the typical Harvard frame that if all the men in the College were laid end to end, the result would be utterly repulsive...