Word: overweighting
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Jackie Robinson, who arrived at the Dodgers' training camp at Ciudad Trujillo three days late and 15 lbs. overweight, will probably be switched to his old job at second base, now that Ed ("Walking Man") Stanky has been traded to the Braves...
Three hundred fifty fans, most of them standees, saw the more exciting Block-house proceedings. At 121, Coombs took a default but lost to his overweight opponent by a 7 to 2 count in a subsequent exhibition bout. Brown won a default in the 128-pound class and a pin in the next weight. Then Ray took a 4 to 0 decision at 145, but Conant was pinned...
...Overweight men & women sometimes take thyroxine* to burn up excess fat and make their figures slimmer and more attractive. Hogs may soon be fed thiouracil, the opposite of thyroxine, to make their figures fatter and more attractive...
With true sportsmanship, the Navy helped the Army in its attack on the record. Ready for the take-off in Hawaii, the Boeing Superfortress Pacusan Dreamboat, 27,000 lbs. overweight, was expected to need every mile of runway it could get. The Navy connected its John Rodgers airfield outside Honolulu with the Army's Hickam Field, gave the Dreamboat 13,500 feet. It took about half that. Actually, the Army had little hope of bettering the Turtle's mark, trumpeted that its $3,000,000 flight over the Pole to Cairo would test performance in polar regions...
...causes of male "sterility" (i.e., subnormal sperm production): mumps (after puberty), gonorrhea, malaria, hot baths, exposure to X rays and other atomic radiation. The chief cause of female sterility is blocked tubes. But contrary to popular notion, absolute sterility is rare. Failure to conceive is often due to fatigue, overweight, nervous strain, emotional tension between husband & wife, or simply too infrequent sexual relations. On more than one occasion, the Cleveland doctors have even discovered patients who were more innocent than Adam...