Word: hefting
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Three Chicago women, hired for their heft, last week hopped on scales to show what a week's competitive dieting had done for them. In blatant co-operation to teach rumpy Chicagoans how to reduce were Dr. Herman Niels Bundesen. president of Chicago's Board of Health. Dr. William I. Fishbein, able young brother of the American Medical Association's Dr. Morris Fishbein. and William Randolph Hearst. Mr. Hearst's Chicago Herald & Examiner, which hired the women because their chunky thighs and beefy arms would photograph well, instigated and made great ado over bananas...
There remained the vast desert heft of the rest of Arabia. To prevent even this from attaining true unity, it was divided into various territories: the Kingdom of the Hejaz, the principalities of Asir and Yemen, the British-controlled Hadramaut, Oman on the tip of the Persian gulf, and Nejd, the great central core. What they did not reckon on was the mettle of the man who had already won for himself part of this dusty district - Ibn Saud, ruler of the Nejd. Abdul Aziz ibn Abdur Rahman Al Faisal Al Saud, Knight Grand Commander of the Indian Empire, better...
...good to beat Washington State, San Francisco and hold Southern California to a scoreless tie. . . . The center, Clyde Devine, is 6 ft. 6 in. tall and weighs 191 Ib. The running guard who plays next to him is Vernon Wedin, eleven inches shorter and 190 Ib. in heft. They're a fine looking pair...
...bullet-headed General Owen O'Duffy. founder of the United Ireland opposition party, was rallying his blue-shirted Irish Fascists to a meeting in the little Kerry town of Tralee by the sea, they got the feel of a shillalah in one hand, the heft of a handful of rock in the other and tramped into Tralee. When they saw the Blue Shirts coming they flung their rocks, howling ''Up de Valera!", "O'Duffy is a traitor!", then ducked in for the shillalah work. Some of them set upon General O'Duffy, bludgeoned him bloody...
...scalpers as much as $50 for a seat. They find themselves sitting next to people who have never been to any college but have secured six tickets at box office prices through some young collegian in their offices. They see college boys exploited in the newspapers, their size, heft, parentage, personalities analyzed. They grumble, only partly mollified by the knowledge that out of the huge gate receipts of football their colleges get funds to support other forms of athletics. The track team gets its carfare, the crew its costly shells out of the coffers filled by great Football. Recently Yale...