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Following graduation he stayed on in Cambridge to work for his Ph.D. When war came he at first volunteered for the army, but was persuaded by his associates that he could contribute more to the Allied cause as a researcher than as a slightly-underweight and very academic doughboy. Dutifully he proceeded to a small factory in Willoughby, Ohio where the army was developing poison gas. He worked out a method of preparing mustard gas on a large scale, and contributed to the original discovery of deadly Lewisite...
...started to turn blue. Her mother hardly ever knew a good night's sleep; she kept waking to hear the reassurance of the child's raucous mouth breathing. Because her mouth was always dry, Andrea's food didn't taste good and she was underweight...
Universal Training. In Palmetto, Fla., 82-year-old Samuel Sample, who was rejected by the Army in the Spanish-American War because he was underweight, in World War I because he was overage, was ordered by a Tampa draft board to report for induction as a draft delinquent...
...managed to maintain something of Uddevalla's freshness chiefly by keeping her life separate from the nervous and narcissistic world in which she moves. She prefers simple sport clothes, rarely wears evening gowns off the job, never goes to nightclubs. She keeps herself in fine modeling fettle-underweight (122 lbs.) and hard as a pole vaulter-by swimming, tennis, horseback riding, and gardening on her new four-acre farm. Daughter Mia frequently functions as her mother's severest critic. Whenever she does not like one of Lisa's ads, she pencils in bold crayon corrections...
...Louis Cardinals), they were less conspicuous than the greenest rookies. Nobody had to give them orders about getting in shape; they trained themselves. Many a player turns up at camp hog-fat; Musial, who had put himself on a winter schedule of two meals a day, reported five pounds underweight and built up to his normal 175. When the season began, Stan Musial dug in at the plate with his peculiar crouch. "He looks like a kid peeking around the corner to see if the cops are coming," explained one coach...