Word: healthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bowling game has been adopted by the welfare departments of large industrial and commercial institutions as one of the best health and social mediums for their employes. It has also been adopted by fraternal organizations, K. of C.'s, Y. M. C. A.'s and countless other organizations, who certainly would not adopt a game generally participated in by "barflies" and "roustabouts...
...Public Health, Dean's Office...
...Still in his 30's, son of a Scotch Presbyterian minister, Inventor Baird has won the esteem of Science after overcoming the inventor's traditional obstacles, poor health and poverty. After the War, he was on the way to financial independence with a patent waterproof sock. Illness wrecked his plans. His television experiments, begun in 1912, were long pursued in garrets with the homeliest of apparatus?bicycle sprockets, bull's-eye lenses, biscuit tins, cardboard, string, sealing...
...Conrad length, posed before the camera with tortured brow, eyes popping with Muscovite anguish, his esthetically agonized face pressed against gentle fingers. He explained he was born in Moscow, came to the U. S. at the age of 10 with his parents, settled in Chicago, suffered from tuberculosis, sought health in the South Sea Islands, retreated into Southern California...
Latterly, after the World War, when he had established himself as professor of public health administration at Columbia University and as associate editor of the Nation's Health and of the Survey, he made a study of child growth, in localities as scattered as Manhattan, Toronto and Honolulu. He found that under favorable conditions children grew without relation to the seasons of the year; he decided that children who grew lanky & gawky in the spring, grew lanky & gawky because they had fevers...