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...make them tough, Japanese wrestlers are trained from the cradle, fed on underdone beefsteak when normal children are still milk-bibbing. They grow to enormous size, sometimes are seven feet tall, weigh 400 Ib. Like Samson's, their hair is uncut. Their early training consists mostly of walking around looking for a movable mass of stone or wood; when such a mass is sighted the would-be wrestler gathers himself together, gets a running start, and hurls himself at it with a mighty grunt. After several years of displacing boulders the candidate is considered tough enough to begin learning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sumo Strike | 1/25/1932 | See Source »

...weight, Mrs. Anthony Caruso's seventh child, born in Newark last week, should have been nine months old. He weighed 18 Ib. at birth. Ordinarily newborn infants weigh 7 Ib. During the first two or three days they usually lose 5 or 6 oz., but regain it by the beginning of the second week. Then the ordinary infant adds poundage until he weighs 20 to 21 Ib. at his first birthday. Mrs. Caruso's 18-lb. son, if he gains weight in proportion to his pre-natal precocity, will weigh 36 Ib. July 1, 54 Ib. next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Big Baby | 1/18/1932 | See Source »

...women who had their first pregnancy after 30) would have oversize offspring. But just a year ago Dr. James Knight Quigley, Rochester, N. Y. specialist in obstetrics & gynecology, presented good evidence that the old supposition is not true. Babies of such women averaged, in his series of births, 7 Ib. 8½ oz., which is about normal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Big Baby | 1/18/1932 | See Source »

Born. To Donald Ogden Stewart, 37, author, actor, and Mrs. Beatrice Ames Stewart; a second son; in Manhattan. Weight: 8 Ib. 10 oz. Name: Donald Ogden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 18, 1932 | 1/18/1932 | See Source »

...road (called "ride control," featured on Buick, Graham-Paige, Oldsmobile). There was a starting system operated by a button on the dash (featured by Hudson and Rockne). There were custom-made tires at $100 apiece that cannot blow out and are guaranteed for 20,000 mi., carrying only 12 Ib. of air pressure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Motion For Sale | 1/18/1932 | See Source »

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