Word: ib
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cinchophen is a bitter white powder discovered in 1887 and used since 1908 as a treatment for gout, arthritis, rheumatic fever, neuralgia, neuritis, sciatica. By 1932 U. S. invalids were annually using 90,000 Ib. of cinchophen and its derivatives...
...rope, drinks sherry, wears a hair net, uses little makeup, no red nail polish. She owns a Border terrier named Laetitia of Crendon, likes amusing socialites, has thus far shown no romantic interest in men. She plays bad ping pong. Helen Jacobs is not a Jew. She weighs 124 Ib. She walks with her feet pointing straight ahead. Next winter, she will live in Buckinghamshire, England, write a biography of her ancestor Carter Braxton, who signed the Declaration of Independence for Virginia...
...California, admitting that he was 46 years old and stating that he would try to make the Varsity football team. True to his boast. Chief West last week trotted out for conditioning practice. He got a mild "Charley horse" when another squad member, carrying the Chief's 216 Ib. hulk down the field on his shoulders for exercise, dropped it on the ground...
Born. To Fisticuffer Jack Dempsey, 41; and Mrs. Hannah Williams Dempsey, 25, onetime musicomedienne: a second daughter; in Manhattan. Weight: 8 Ib. 9 oz. Name: Barbara Judith...
...father's property, finished a four-year medi-cal course in three years. While still an interne, on a vacation in Washington, he took the examination for entrance into the Marine Hospital Service. With no preparation, he was one of three selected from 30 candidates, lost 20 Ib. during the two-week grilling, got by partially on the strength of his knowledge, partially on his craft. During the oral examinations he learned that the more delays he could introduce the fewer would be the questions. Consequently he stalled, hedged, purposely irritated the examiners to direct their questions to subjects...