Word: grooming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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McCurdy ran his own melodramatic race against Yale in an attempt to groom these two runners in time for the meet. Although the Crimson lost by a point, he succeeded in squeezing the maximum possible effort from his team...
From the Charleston area, Dr. Dale Groom reported, the hearts studied showed twice as much atherosclerosis (the form of arteriosclerosis that affects the coronary arteries) as did the hearts collected in Haiti by Dr. Vergniaud Péan. Why? Their diets did not differ significantly except in two respects: the Haitians got far less to eat, and as many as 42% in the poorer classes were underweight, while as many as 30% of better-fixed Charleston Negroes were overweight; also, the Haitians had practically no cholesterol in their diet, while the South Carolinians had six to 20 times as much...
...first glance, such data would fix the blame on the diet. But South Carolina's Dr. Groom was not to be stampeded. Pathologist Edward E. McKee (who did all the autopsies, did not know where a particular heart came from until afterward) had checked the aortas with equal care, found surprisingly that just as many Haitian as South Carolinian aortas were diseased. To Dr. Groom, this indicated that something besides diet was to blame, though he did not rule out the possibility that a dietary clue might yet be found...
...know where their next meal was coming from, they refused to worry about it. The research team was unanimous that the Haitians slept more, worried less, lived at a slower, less stressful pace (although they were obliged by lack of transportation to take more exercise). Said Dr. Groom: "The life of the American Negro is inherently more competitive...
...something to have had for a grandfather a duke who, after ringing a gold bell, was able to order his groom of the chambers: "Perfection round at a quarter before three, if you please." Perfection was only a horse, but in Belvoir Castle, it might have seemed to young Diana Manners that the Seventh Duke of Rutland had only to ring his little gold bell to summon up perfection itself. Now 66 and the widow of gallant, talented Captain Alfred Duff Cooper, D.S.O., onetime First Lord of the Admiralty, Diana has written a story that might have been just another...