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...Primo Camera, monster Venetian pugilist: an uproarious Manhattan fight against Victorio Campolo, taller, slimmer monster of the Argentine: by a knockout, in the second round...
...such comparison thus to be made. Present day Harvard men. the figures show, are on the average eight pounds heavier than their fathers were. Their average height of 5 ft. 10 1/10 in. represents a group increase of one inch over a period of 32 years. Their hips are slimmer, their torsos and shoulders heavier...
Worms, with the help of the gnats, make gnomes of these mountain peoples. The worms are a species of Filariae, called Onchocerca caecutiens, about one and one-quarter inches long, slimmer than a hair and white. When they get into the skin and breed, they soon form a network of colonies on the skull, resembling sodden felt and causing cranial protuberances. Wandering worms and their excrement give rise to the other gnomelike appearances...
Although the Kroger chain now has 5,600 stores and 23,000 employes, is supposedly negotiating for more, all has not been going well. The 1929 operating margin was slimmer. Change from a centralized into a nine-branch decentralized system was expensive, large inventory losses have been suffered. But the real seriousness of the Kroger difficulties was not fully apparent until last week...
...that within a week or so of the opening of practice, he found himself firmly entrenched on the first team, a position from which no one has succeeded in ousting him to date. As time goes on the chances of any such event's happening seem to be getting slimmer and slimmer, and barring injury there are few who doubt that the opening line-up against Yale next month will include Ticknor at one guard and Trainer at the other. There is not another position on the whole team, with the exception of Captain Barrett's tackle berth and possibly...