Word: smaller
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years nutritionists have tried to teach the U. S. public common sense about eating. But most people who can afford to eat well eat unwisely, pour enormous quantities of oils, sugars and refined starches into their overworked digestive engines. "If a diet is correctly balanced," said Dr. Heiser, "a smaller quantity of food will suffice." Certain it is that middle-aged persons who keep slightly underweight have a good chance of outliving their self-indulgent friends. Facts on food...
Strapping Fred W. Meyenborg, president of the Merchant Tailors Society of the City of New York, last week sounded a Recovery note. He announced that businessmen will be in good physical shape to handle increased business, when it comes. Reason: Their average waist measure is smaller than...
...breed-a present from Adolf Hitler. He is Otto Jeidels (pronounced Yi-dels), a tall handsome man with a twinkle in his eye, who habitually talks so fast that no one else can get in a word. Before teller purged German banking he was only one size smaller than Hjalmar Schacht himself; now he is a partner of the Manhattan banking firm of Lazard Freres...
...Blish died in 1926, Brigadier General Thompson, full of honors from long service, had long since retired from the army to become chief advisory engineer of Auto-Ordnance Co. Chief financial backers were Capitalist Thomas Fortune Ryan, who held 51% of the stock, and George Harvey, who held a smaller block. Onetime Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, Harvey went to his grave soft-pedaling his interest in the company which sold 750 choppers to the Irish Republic, to be used against British soldiers...
...figure in their calculations as building blocks figure in the architectural dreams of children. Divisions are only roughly equal in size and strength-in France and Russia there are 18,000 men to a division, in Germany, 15,200; in Poland and England, 12,000. Mechanized divisions are even smaller, but their strength is computed in terms of tanks, armored cars, machine-guns...