Word: highly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After centuries of living 2½ miles or so above sea level, says Dr. Monge, the Andean native has become "a climato-physiological variety of the human race." To cope with the low oxygen supply in the air he breathes, the typical inhabitant of the high Central Andes (including parts of Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador) has developed a barrel chest with extra lung capacity. He carries about two quarts more blood than the coastal Peruvian, about half again as much hemoglobin (the blood's oxygen-carrying component). His heart rate is slow and steady. "An ideal heart...
...Boston press was having a field day. Wrote Bill Cunningham in the Herald: ". . . Harvard still thinks of herself as a national power when, as a matter of fact, she's only the champion of Middlesex County, and that only ... because she didn't meet Arlington High School...
...International Amphitheater in the heart of Chicago's stockyards, last week, a scarlet-coated trumpeter tooted his horn. A hush fell over a sellout crowd of 11,000. Fourteen high-stepping horses trotted into the ring, their tails arched high,*their riders sitting with ramrod-straight backs. At stake was the championship for five-gaited horses...
Going promptly to work, pretty President Alvarez personally designed the studios (ceilings 22 ft. high, and doors wide enough to admit football floats or elephants). In three weeks she spurred admiring engineers to complete wiring that normally takes three months. Despite the competition of Oklahoma's Senator Robert S. Kerr and Tulsa's grand old man of oil and No. 1 citizen, W.G. Skelly (who had also applied for a TV station permit), she secured the tower of the National Bank of Tulsa for KOTV's transmitter. Wearing shorts, she clambered up 400 ft. on an outside...
Puerto Rico's historic capital of San Juan busily prepared for a fiesta. At Governor Muñoz Marin's mansion, servants made ready for a party, washing the fine crystal, putting a high polish on the silverware. On traffic-jammed Ponce de León Avenue stood a huge welcome sign: Bien-venidos. In the plaza, the excited chatter was all about the opening this week of Puerto Rico's finest hotel, which islanders hope will be a rich new source of revenue and prestige for their economy...