Word: pars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the information cards were processed by the machine, they showed that lean and nonmuscular Harvard students tended to become Government officials or parsons. Moderately lean students with better muscles than average often became successful scientists. Harvard-bred artists usually developed out of students with medium fleshiness and below-par muscles. The heavy but muscular students went in for the practical callings of engineering or business and generally succeeded, while lighter-bodied competitors dropped out. A few of the Harvard men sank to manual labor, but only the poorer-muscled ones stayed at that level all their lives. The better...
According to Stagg, the study reveals that Government officials in the group tend to be lean and unmuscular, scientists moderately thin with better than average muscles. The law profession attracts portly men with a sub-par muscularity, with a smattering of big-muscled "fighting lawyer" types. Artists have a medium fleshiness and below-par muscularity, whereas theology generally attracts lean, unmuscular, lightly-built men with a minority of the muscular "fighting parson" type...
Correlating physical types with fatal diseases, the scientists find that 21 percent of deaths were due to blood-clotting causing heart failure. Stocky men with under-par muscularity were the usual victims of coronary thrombosis and cancer. Tuberculosis claimed many tall, muscular men of light build while passing up heavier individuals of greater fleshiness...
...team is pretty strong offensively, but relatively green on defense Goalie Henry Pildner can say almost anything in the air, has plenty of courage, and boasts a fast, long boot. Adelbert Cranney and Dick Simmons, who substitute in the nets, are less experienced and about on a par. Marvin Weiss, brother of last year's All-American Charlie Weiss, and Mauricio Toro have added new life to the formerly weak fullback positions. Both players and have excellent control Substitutes Tim Janway and Bob Young are inexperienced, but Young is aggressive and can sometimes get off long boots...
...modern times, millions of men & women of Jewish origin have renounced Judaism as their spiritual country. Such men & women think (or say they think) that the word "Jew" should be on a par with "Baptist," "Congregationalist" or "Catholic"-and should apply only to the Jews who have elected to be, or to remain, Jews. Rabbi Finkelstein's Torah teaches him that the covenant God made with Israel is an inescapable covenant. "The choosing by God," says he, "was like Selective Service." It is binding on all Jews, to the last generation on earth...