Word: height
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Polar Bear Erect. Stalin was a small, unhandsome man. Visitors were always surprised he was so short, guessed his height at 5 ft. 4 in., his weight from 150 Ibs. to 190 Ibs. His complexion was swarthy, sometimes yellowish, and his face was lightly pitted from a childhood smallpox. His hair was grey and stiff as a badger's, his mustache white. His expression was usually sardonic, his rare smile saturnine. When he laughed loudly he exposed a mouth full of teeth-jagged, yellow teeth-and the sound of his laughter was a controlled, relaxed, hissing chuckle...
...point (as today), Lenin was a certified god in the world Pantheon of social progress, but hard-boiled Djugashvili was not impressed: "I had hoped to see the mountain eagle of our party," he wrote. "How great was my disappointment to see a most ordinary looking man, below average height, in no way distinguishable from ordinary mortals...
...envy of many a portly colleague. Last week the minister's interest in weight and diet was extended from the particular to the general. The National Health and Welfare Department announced a nationwide survey in which 25,000 Canadians will be weighed and measured to determine new height-weight standards for the whole country...
...height-weight charts now posted in schools and doctors' offices across Canada bear little accurate relation to present national averages. They are based on U.S. insurance-company statistics, which do not necessarily apply in Canada, or on statistics compiled 40 years ago, when nutrition was far below today's standards. Dr. Lionel Pett, head of the Health Department's nutrition division, has tried for several years to interest the government in a survey to compile accurate Canadian tables. This year, after the World Health Organization had urged member nations to make new height-weight surveys...
...heavier than Americans "because so many of us are from northern European stock." The tables' ultimate purpose, however, will not be to measure Canadians against others but against themselves, to tell the individual whether he weighs too much or too little for a person his age and height. Dr. Pett, 43, will learn whether his weight (151 lbs.) is, as he thinks, "just about right" for his 5-ft.-8½-in. frame. And Minister Martin may find out whether he can stop dieting...