Word: heavier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hagen, Cox and Armour were a stroke behind, Farrell two strokes. Hagen got another 68 the next day. Farrell was still a stroke behind him and Alliss, with a 71 for his second round, was a stroke behind Farrell. Cox, disgusted by a 39, changed to the smaller, heavier old ball, shot a 35 on the second nine. It was a cool, grey day. Henry Cotton, generally considered most formidable of the British Ryder Cup players, strapped two umbrellas to his bag in case of rain...
...finally reappeared last week, 23 years old and slightly heavier about the stern, as a wheedling soubrette whose bad habits included nasal babytalk, semidipsomania and an appetite for carnal misbehavior. Her performance was skillful, as was that of Actress Constance Cummings, but the story-in which the two girls wrangled for the attentions of a young business man who, though he succumbed in turn to both, never seemed much interested in either one-was a trifle of the type which Hollywood now turns out in case-lots. When repulsing the advances of a suave but likeable playboy who employs...
...operating cash than it was to pay off $589,314,000 in short-term debts due June 15. By pumping its present obligations into the future, the Treasury was in a better position to finance the Deficit with more brief borrowings. About Washington also buzzed talk of new and heavier taxation to be imposed at the next session of Congress. Secretary Mellon was supposed to be considering a 1? per gal. Federal gasoline tax which would net the Treasury $400,000,000. Automobile associations, and State tax authorities who now have a monopoly on this levy, protested loudly. Suggestions from...
...evolutionary trend. Last week Gordon Townsend Bowles, graduate anthropology student, revealed results of his study of measurements of Harvard men, including figures for 400 pairs of fathers and sons-first such comparison thus to be made. Present day Harvard men. the figures show, are on the average eight pounds heavier than their fathers were. Their average height of 5 ft. 10 1/10 in. represents a group increase of one inch over a period of 32 years. Their hips are slimmer, their torsos and shoulders heavier...
Measurements of 501 pairs of daughters and mothers who attended Smith, Vassar, Wellesley and Mt. Holyoke Colleges show a similar trend. The girls are some seven pounds heavier, about one inch taller than were their mothers at the same age. They are larger in every way but one: their hips are more slender...