Word: overweightness
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...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...
Last week Dr. Urey announced production in experimental quantities of another overweight element - heavy nitrogen, which weighs 15 units to 14 for ordinary nitrogen. After two years of work he and his associates have produced 20 grams of heavy nitrogen in 2½% concentration, 400 grams of lower concentrations. To obtain it they used a 35-ft. vertical tube designed by Columbia's George B. Pegram for the separation of heavy oxygen. The tube contains 1,200 steel cones. A gaseous compound of ammonia, rich in nitrogen, passes up through the tube; some condenses, trickles down and with each...
...Anatomy in Temple University Dental School, is secretary. Further exceptions are made in the cases of bodies of U. S. soldiers, sailors and marines, Pennsylvania militiamen, and travelers; and persons dying of "smallpox, scarlet fever, diphtheria, meningitis, bubonic plague, typhus, yellow fever, cholera, leprosy, anthrax, glanders, erysipelas. Alcoholics, overweight bodies, mutilated or decomposed bodies must be buried by public authority because unfit...
Final result: "At eighteen years, this girl, who had been greatly handicapped by paralytic disability and crippling deformities, was by no means a perfectly efficient machine, but was then able to walk with one cane and a slightly raised shoe. Had she not been so decidedly overweight, she could probably have discarded the one cane. As it was, she said she could walk half a mile...