Word: lineal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Their lineal chief, strapping, handsome, Oxford-trained Seretse Khama, 27, sat among them as they weighed his choice for wife & queen. While studying law in England, Seretse had married Ruth Williams, 24, a fair-haired London typist. By Bamangwato custom the Chief may wed only with the consent of tribal elders. Seretse had not asked for such consent. He was summoned home to defend his action before the Bamangwato peers...
...more seriously than the magazines which pick them. To the magazines All-Americas are a deadly business, an important piece of promotion involving the prestige of the magazines as well as their hired experts. And none takes them more seriously than Collier's, which regards its teams as lineal descendants of the late Walter Camp's All-Americas, and for 22 years has employed kindly Grantland Rice, "dean of the sportwriters," to do its picking...
...valley), Buenaventura is also on the way to becoming the best-equipped port on South America's west coast. Last fortnight, a U.S. contractor (Raymond Concrete Pile Co.) finished two new storage warehouses and a 1,057-ft. wharf extension, which increased total berthing space to 3,432 lineal ft. Last week, the Colombian government signed a new, $4 million contract with the same company for 1,000 more feet of wharf, two more warehouses, two railway stations, a new coaling station...
Life with Olla. Papa Eskelund's real affairs are told in this book, prised out of him by his son Karl, with the help of some good stiff drinks of a Guatemalan liquor called olla. As the story of a wayward parent, My Danish Father is a lineal descendant of the family-chronicle light biography (Papa Was a Preacher; Mother Wore Tights). Son Karl, a lanky, amiable onetime United Press correspondent in China, made the best-seller lists 18 months ago with a variation on the theme called My Chinese Wife. In My Danish Father, he has mixed...
...processes and disease. He and famed Physiologist Graham Lusk were the first in the U.S. to use the calorimeter (a device that measures the output of body heat) on human subjects. The modern basal metabolism test, which measures the rate of body processes by measuring oxygen consumption, is a lineal descendant of the DuBois calorimeter...