Word: underweights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Horse Meat Helps. Almost half of France's newborn babies were underweight, and the child death rate had increased by 25%. Tuberculosis deaths were up 51%. The Germans had drained off dairy products, livestock (a quarter of France's cattle, a third of her draft animals), huge quantities of wine (for the Wehrmacht: 60,000 bottles of champagne daily-though the Germans, who did not know enough to specify the vintage years, did not get the best). Last week in towns where retreating Germans left dead horses on the street, the inhabitants eagerly butchered the carcasses...
Paul is senescent. He is also very undersized (32½ in. high) and underweight (21½ lb. - about the size of a one-year-old child...
...Slender, underweight (132 Ib.), blue-eyed Henry L. Olson, 25, onetime farm boy, was invalided home last summer-weighing 112 pounds. He had been with the A.V.G. in Burma and China nearly a year, was twice shot down. He is Democratic candidate for Congress from the Ninth District-a vast area of wheatfields, Indian reservations, woods, lakes, muskeg...
...overweight, underweight, or for some other reason have hesitated to make your contribution, hesitate no longer. Very frail people are giving their blood regularly every two months with no ill effects...
Seventeen of those who were not immediately accepted on the basis of the physical were disqualified, while another 17 were placed in a "hold" category, including men with correctable defects such as being underweight and having decayed teeth...