Word: ill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sorento, Ill...
...greatest disappointment came in the 145 pound class as Bruce Richardson was defeated with a fall by Becker of Syracuse. In a close battle, Pete Ill-man was downed by John Bird of Yale in the 155 pound class, and Ted Schoenberg was nosed out for a decision by Norman Bond of Penn. who had defeated him earlier in the season. Another close bout was fought between Duncan Longcope and Bortz, a stellar Penn. State wrestler...
Nothing could be more indicative of a healthy state of affairs on Harvard's labor front than the threat of a general walk-out which the kitchen and dining-hall workers hurled at the University early yesterday morning. Hasty, aggressive and doubtless ill-considered, it nevertheless showed a majority of workers democratically exerting their rights without fear of reprisal: in short, the ideal personnel...
...Alton, Ill.'s Robert Wadlow, tallest man in medical history (TIME, March 9, 1936), celebrated his 21st birthday by giving out interviews, going to a party some friends gave in his honor at Masonic Temple. He is still healthy, still putting on weight, still growing (three-fourths of an inch, eleven pounds in the last six months). Present height: 8 ft. 8½ in. Weight: 491 Ib. When he quits growing, his family plans to build him a "dream house," with ceilings "at least twelve feet high...
Taken up on an ill-considered boast. Lothrop Withington '42 is faced with the prospect of downing a live goldfish in the Union at 6:30 o'clock tonight. Three freshman friends of Withington not believing it possible have offered him $10 for the feat and tickets will be sold to pay for tomorrow's show...