Word: lathrope
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...cushioned rest, and she gripped a handle connected to a chain-and-wheel tackle from which hung 4 kg. (8¾ Ibs.) of lead. "Hold it as long as you can," ordered the thin, white-gowned woman pacing behind the test setup last week in an enclosed balcony of Lathrop Hall, women's gymnasium of the University of Wisconsin at Madison. The coed, Marilyn Grabin, gritted her teeth and lifted the handle, got the weight up about eight inches...
...backshop trades of the news business, mastered the Linotype when he was 14, developed into a skilled doctor of slumping papers, and, incidentally, made a pile in real estate. When he went up to Fairbanks in 1950 to diagnose what ailed the sick News-Miner of Austin ("Cap") Lathrop, Snedden was convinced that Alaska should not seek statehood...
Pursuing this lexicography, the booklet reveals that "Dear Robert Louis Stevenson" does not mean Dear Robert Louis Stevenson at all, but is instead "an efficient method of remembering the Quad houses, "which are conveniently named Davison, Raymond, Lathrop, and Strong. "Stacks" are also defined...
...been thought before Lathrap's discovery that the Montana Indians were a link to the highly civilized Inca cultures discovered during the Spanish Conquest. Lathrop's evidence, however, indicates that the area was culturally related to the regions in the Amazon and on the shores of the Caribbean...
...partner of New York's Governor (and U.S. Senator) David B. Hill. After grade and elementary school in Albany, entered Connecticut's Wesleyan University, transferred after his junior year to the newly organized School of Business at Columbia University (B.A., 1917). In 1918 married Mary Elizabeth Lathrop; they have two daughters, four grandchildren...