Word: talled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...father and himself. Nor can he join in social sports like tennis. He is too big to go out with girls, so he entertains himself with photography. He likes to have his little sister and brother clamber over him. He helps his mother around the house with such tall chores ar washing windows and wiping ceilings clean of dust. Ceilings in the Wadlow home are only a fraction of an inch above the boy's blond head. His bed measures nine feet. For breakfast he eats a dozen eggs...
...American Medical Association had just published a lengthy thoroughgoing account of Robert Wadlow of Alton, Ill. who, the author asserted, "exceeds . . . every other documented case of gigantism on record in medical literature." Last Monday, when Robert Wadlow celebrated his nineteenth birthday, he was 8 ft. 6 in. tall, weighed 435 lb., was still growing...
Cause of his condition is hypertrophy of his pituitary gland. This endocrine body, situated under the brain, controls growth. Usually when it goes awry it affects the individual either at puberty or after he reaches maturity. Adolescent pituitary trouble makes the victim exceedingly tall and lanky. Later it makes the hands, feet and head (especially the chin) vast and ponderous. Robert Wadlow's condition started at birth. Hence his 8 ft. 6 in. and his 435 Ib. are in fairly good proportion...
Vronsky & Babin, like their friends Bartlett & Robertson, are married. Babin is tall, dark, 29. His wife is 28. They met in Germany where they both studied under Artur Schnabel. In 1931 they first went on tour, married two years later in London...
...income on its underwritings has risen from $12,658,000 in 1933 to $16,326,000 in 1936. Fire insurance is now its smallest field, ocean marine its largest. It writes all forms of insurance except life. Mr. Levison's successor as president of the com-pany is tall, bald Yaleman Charles R. Page. 59, who has been in Mr. Levison's old division of marine insurance ever since he left college, except for three years as a Commissioner of the U. S. Shipping Board during...