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Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health have found that in certain cases, stouter men are at a decreased risk of developing prostate cancer...
...Stouter than I used...
...frenzy: 'Thus it is for the undersized man of letters, who flees his country because he, with his delicate, effeminate sensitiveness, finds the conditions of life on this side of the water crude and raw ... and so goes where he will be sheltered from the winds that harden stouter souls...
...they handle their overseas empires. Some of the companies that have not adapted to new realities of local pride and politics have learned to regret it. The most recent example is Sime Darby, a rubber and palm-oil conglomerate in Malaysia that had been one of the stouter remaining pillars of Britain's overseas commercial empire. That pillar fell with a crash over New Year's with an upheaval on the board of directors that put the company under effective control of the Malaysian government and had all the elements of a Graham Greene novel -intrigue, nationalism...
...social outings, or indoors in meeting halls, vaudeville theaters, operas, ballrooms. There seemed to be no entertainment that did not involve great swarms of people. Trains and steamers and trolleys moved them from one place to another. That was the style, that was the way people lived. Women were stouter then. They visited the fleet carrying white parasols. Everyone wore white in summer. Tennis racquets were hefty and the racquet faces elliptical. There was a lot of sexual fainting. There were no Negroes. There were no immigrants...