Word: overweighted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moribund until Secretary Hull pleaded last week for amendments to allow sale of arms to (good) nations at war, 2) a tax bill, 3) Social Security. Mr. Roosevelt could feel relieved that Congressional items like further WPA investigation and revision of the Wagner Act seemed likely to die of overweight...
...long afterward the same customer began joining marriage bureaus, get-acquainted and lonely-hearts clubs. He was, he lied, a middle-aged dairyman with $100,000. The answers poured in, mainly from women between 35 and 50 (80%, overweight)-nurses, stenographers, club women, even a few plane-owners. Unasked and unequivocally, one out of three offered physical surrender on sight...
...creating artificially radioactive substances. Having no electrical resistance to fight against, a slow neutron simply sidles up to an atom and "falls" into the nucleus-much as a slowly rolling golf ball drops into the cup whereas a faster one may roll by. Capture of a neutron makes an overweight, unstable atom which spits out particles or radiation or both. Fermi's slow neutrons have induced this kind of radioactivity in more than 40 elements...
...exceptions had lived in such cities since adolescence. All but five had spent 18 months or more in other penal institutions. All without exception had shown delinquency at an early age. In physique they ranged from skinny giants to chunky short men, but Mr. Clemmer noticed that none was overweight...
February 6, Maxwell Finland '22, instructor in Medicine, "Colds, Influenza, and Pneumonia"; February 13, John Rock '14, assistant in Gynaecology, "Menstrual Disorders and the Menopause" (for women only); February 20, F. Dennette Adams, instructor in Medicine, "Overweight and Underweight"; February 27, Channing Frothingham '02, Overseer, and Richard H. Miller '04, clinical professor of Surgery, "Pain in the Abdomen...