Word: stoutness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...line-up against Harvard will be as follows: McMillan center, Hills and Howard guards, Beattie and Gates tackles, Captain Stout and Dinsmore ends...
Chickens. Subjected to ordinary sunlight, chickens prospered; left in the dark, they developed rickets and died. Exposed to rays from the quartz window, they grew faster than normally ; their bones became very stout, sometimes so stout that their growth was a positive menace. In a few weeks, by continued use of the rays, it was found possible to develop fabulously succulent small fowls?"superbroilers." When the milk and celery which fed them had been treated with the rays, they thrived better than those whose food had not been so treated...
...Mecca, AH, the son of Husein, strove to keep the crown in the Hasbinite family by stout resistance to the raids of the Wahabi tribesmen. Heading the Wahabis, Ibn Saud, Sultan of Nejd, harried Ali's forces, then slipped in between Jeddah and Mecca, isolating the port and cutting Mecca off from...
Alan Dale -"Stout men, stout women, thin men, thin women, ushers, hangers-on- everybody laughed...
Experiments are taking the form of all-metal dirigibles. The Stout Metal Airplane Co. has already built an "air Pullman," christened it Maiden Detroit and put it into passenger work over the city. The vessel is built entirely of a new metal called duralumin, said to be lighter than aluminum yet stronger than steel. Another builder was the Aircraft Development Co. Edsel Ford donated a Dearborn flying field to the two pioneer companies; while the Common Council of Detroit has started to acquire a municipal landing field on the Detroit River...