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...carries it is not the tallest horse that ever lived, but he is enormous by any other measure of size or performance. He has a neck like a buffalo, a back as broad as a sofa. His chest is so deep and wide that it takes a custom-made girth to encircle its 75% in. and hold the saddle. And he is still growing...
Some of this support may be a product of his physical appeal. He is a strapping chestnut colt-1,115 lbs. with a girth measuring an imposing 75 ½ in. -and, like Man o' War, is nicknamed "Big Red." "He's like a big bull running against a bunch of kids," one trainer says. "He's the biggest colt I've ever trained," says Lucien Laurin, "and maybe the best looking." "I call him 'Sexy,' " says Penny Tweedy, the proprietress of Meadow Stables. Fans have responded with enthusiasm, wildly cheering every victory, lustily booing...
Another factor in the Bengals's favor is goalie Bill Cronin, whose generous height and girth make his somewhat sloppy goaltending very effective...
...payroll, apparently the minimum for a city man who moves to the country with a wife and three young daughters. The girls also have a goat, a tribe of chickens, and a pig which Buechner brought home in a sack last fall, and which has since grown to the girth of an alderman. "Get a pig," he recommends. "Friendly, well-mannered, clean, follows you anywhere." He is working now on a kind of devil's dictionary of religious terms, and doesn't know whether there will be another novel about Antonio and Bebb. "Maybe...
Obesity is one of the most common medical complaints in the U.S. today. Depending on the choice of surveys, anywhere from one-tenth to one-quarter of the population is overweight to some extent, and millions of people unhappy about their girth and concerned about their health spend more than $400 million a year on reducing drugs and treatments. Physicians interested in the subject have even formed the American Society of Bariatrics (from the Greek baros, meaning weight) to study the problem collectively. The field has nowhere to go but up; medical science has so far failed miserably to help...