Word: minding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Certain provocative postures accentuate still more the indecency . . . especially ... a certain posture (pardon the comparison!) which brings to mind a posture that dogs often use. These ladies seem to think it impossible to skate gracefully without lifting a leg as high as possible . . . and facing the audience...
Eleanor Roosevelt, tireless globetrotter, was the guest who mattered in England last week. "She is welcome not only for the great name she bears," observed the London News Chronicle, speaking for a great many people, "but for her own endearing qualities of heart and mind...
Blood & Baldness. Blood was also on the mind of Anthropologist C. Wesley Dupertuis of Presbyterian Hospital, New York City. He measured the blood volume of 53 medical students (by injecting dye into their veins) and compared it with their general body-build. The plump, rounded subjects (endomorphs) and the slender, delicate ones (ectomorphs) had less blood compared to weight than the mesomorphs, or husky, athletic types. Conclusion: if you have lots of muscle, you probably have lots of blood...
...lead for five holes. Then, on the short sixth, he smacked the ball toward the green and the crowd held its breath as the ball stopped a few inches from the pin. Claude tapped it in for a birdie. Afterward he said to a reporter: "I don't mind telling you I was extremely nervous until then. That did it. Something clicked. It was the big shot...
...Ford, who is out to boost Lincoln-Mercury's production and sales, will be stepping not only on G.M.'s heels, but on brother Henry's as well. Henry won't mind that. The brothers hope to whip up the same intense (if friendly) rivalry between their divisions as there is between divisions at G.M. and Chrysler...