Word: stomach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most important unit in the nation's twelve-district Reserve system. Sproul, president of the New York "Fed" for 15 years, became known as the most powerful of the regional chiefs and a frequent dissenter from the Washington Board's policy. He resigned because of health (stomach ulcer). Successor Hayes, who calls himself "deplorably obscure," is described by his banker peers as brilliant, is the first president to come from outside the big bank's ranks since it opened for business in 1914. Son of a Cornell University scholar, Hayes got his degree and a Phi Beta...
...Princeton in 1928, just two years after the publication of The Great Gatsby. It was a time of great riches and revelry everywhere, but if any college was the spiritual stomach of the Twenties it was Fitzgerald's Princeton, where almost everyone would be drunk for a week at a time. As Red says, "People at that time were not very interested in religion." A proof of this is the fact that not one member of his class graduated with the intention of entering a seminary, although a number later found their way to the ranks of the ministry...
...wind box" (iron lung) took care of Charlie's breathing and shook his faith in the infallibility of tribal magic. To clinch it, the doctors gave him his tucker (food) intravenously and by stomach tube. Charlie, half-starved, had wandered six days in the bush without food. As he regained some strength, Charlie seemed to regain some will to live...
Woops! There it goes again. The first division, the American balloon tire, no gear, bikes just left. My stomach feels tight, but I'm calm. I'll limber...
Paper Profits. In Montreal, an irate businessman asked the cops to X-ray the stomach of a colleague who had just torn up their tentative contract and eaten...