Word: overweightness
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...times the claims and counter-claims bordered on the ridiculous. The British announced that the ex-world's champion heavyweight boxer Max Schmeling, who though a little overage and a lot overweight had volunteered as a parachutist, had been killed; the Germans replied that he was ill of a "tropical disease" in an Air Force hospital and quoted him ironically: "Many of the Tommies showed true soldierly spirit even toward their German prisoners. A British Army sergeant captured by us promptly assisted us in treating our wounded." As a sort of reprisal the Germans announced that Major General Bernard...
...lose weight as they grow older, their basic physique types do not change. Thus weight tables which give "normal weights" against height and age, without regard to structural type, mean less than nothing. Example: A heavy woman of type 632 frets because she thinks she is 30 Ib. overweight, whereas she is actually 30 Ib. underweight for her type and ought to stop dieting at once...
...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...