Word: latters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...list of the vitamins that are available from chemical manufacture. They are still little used. The former is essential for reproduction in rats, so that it has become known as the sex vitamin, but doctors are still uncertain whether it has any such value in human beings. The latter is unique: it is not vitamin K but is equally effective in decreasing the clotting time of blood...
Harvard swept the two mile and the pole vault to account for 22 of their total. Tim Coggeshall led teammates Dick Bryan, Jim Foley and Archie Lyon, in that order, to the tape in the former, while Alex Rogerson took the latter with an 11 ft., 6 in. effort, nosing out Ward Slingerland and Dan Tosteson...
Winner among male singers was Miguelito Valdes (real name Eugenio Lazaro Miguel Izquierdo Valdes y Hernandez), whose vigorous song-shouting has been featured with both Cugat and Machito. With the latter's band, big, bull-like Valdes recently recorded an album of his guarachas (risque ballads) and pregons (street-vendor songs) for Decca. He sings in a variety of moods from the comic to the truculent, but always with a full head of steam. He grew up on the Havana docks, became a prize fighter, started as a singer when the Havana Riverside Casino fished him out of tough...
...Crimson was especially hapless in the weight events. The Rams swept the shot put and the javelin, and took firsts in the hammer and discus. Willo Fisher, who won the 35-pound weight throw in the IC4A meet at New York during the winter, was second in the latter two events...
...least one former B School cadet in the person of "Commodore" Perry will be alter-bound immediately following receipt of his commission sometime the latter part...