Word: sixings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even tiny Redwater, with a population increase from 150 to 1,500 in ten months, has become a place where a man can spend some of his money. It has six new restaurants, a poolroom and bowling alley, three movie theaters. It also has a spanking-new hotel and beer parlor, where business is so good the waiters refuse to serve less than two beers at a time to a customer. Near Leduc, Imperial has bought a 160-acre field and built a village for 900 families...
...recent paper the Owenses warn: "Vitamin E supplements are of no value if not started...before the baby is six weeks of age, since by that time irreversible retinal changes have occurred." Thus in the case of the Hoffmann twins, it apparently was several months too late for vitamin E treatment when the babies were brought to New York. At Johns Hopkins, every baby under three pounds now gets alpha tocopherol when a week old, and until it passes the 5½-pound mark...
...Billy Southworth was quiet and thoughtful. The Boston press and the Braves management were calling him the smartest manager in baseball; he had done wonders with a team of youngsters and temperamental castoffs from other clubs. But Southworth was worried about the World Series (which the Braves lost in six games to the Cleveland Indians). Also, he wondered whether his Cinderella outfit would hold up this year...
...experts went into a close study of the new Japanese swimming style, especially that of Prodigy Furuhashi. Instead of the standard six-beat leg kick, carefully synchronized with the arm strokes, he uses a slower, but very powerful kick which at times is not in rhythm with his arm movements at all. His arms revolve stiffly like bicycle pedals; he rides low in the water and, especially to flabbergasted U.S. competitors, he looks like a weird, power-driven machine...
...hard struggle. At the first commencement in 1851, seven sheepish seniors took turns wearing the only gown in town, changed costumes behind a screen. But as central Pennsylvania grew, so did the school. Last week Bucknell held its summer commencement with full academic pomp. One hundred sixty-six of its 2,400 students received their diplomas, took a farewell glimpse at the spacious 300-acre campus overlooking the Susquehanna Valley. Among alumni who had preceded them: General Tasker Bliss, ex-'73, U.S. Army Chief of Staff in World War I, and Baseball Immortal Christy Mathewson...