Word: ib
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born. To Janet Gaynor, pert, auburn-haired cinemactress, and Gilbert Adrian, swank fashion designer: their first child, a son. Weight: 7 Ib. 4 oz. Name: Robbin Gaynor...
...lose weight as they grow older, their basic physique types do not change. Thus weight tables which give "normal weights" against height and age, without regard to structural type, mean less than nothing. Example: A heavy woman of type 632 frets because she thinks she is 30 Ib. overweight, whereas she is actually 30 Ib. underweight for her type and ought to stop dieting at once...
Many of the best dairy herds were shipped away in time, but thousands of steers and heifers, thousands of poultry had to be turned loose to forage for themselves when their masters fled. Dogs & cats were put away. Refugees were allowed only 28 Ib. of baggage on the Channel steamers, launches, or cattle boats sent to fetch them. They abandoned their motorcars at the beach heads, one wealthy woman auctioning her mahogany-paneled Rolls-Royce...
...bottom of the Strait drops off to 3,000 ft., but Axis submarines cannot stand water pressures below 400 ft. (190 Ib. per sq. in.). The Strait is too wide for a continuous barrage 400 ft. deep, but "sporadic" netting-here tonight, there tomorrow night-might discourage the most daring Italian or German submarine crews...
...such a state the sun will be not much larger than the earth is now, and a pint of its substance will weigh 3,000,000 Ib...