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Word: nodaway (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Humberd is the coroner of Nodaway County in northwest Missouri and the only doctor in the village of Barnard, where he was born. In Barnard lived a minor politician who weighed 427 lb. when he died last year, and a 19-year-old boy who was 7 ft. tall when he went to a CCC camp last season. Those divergents from the norms of humanity started Dr. Humberd, 40, a curly-headed bookworm, on a study of gigantism. He has hats, shoes, rings and other souvenirs of most of the circus giants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Alton Giant | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

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