Word: weighing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...What famous officeholder had his health so impaired by his arduous office that his lunch was, by physician's orders, one apple, sliced thin??William Howard Taft who while President grew to weigh 320 pounds from lack of exercise. Now he walks three miles to the Capitol every morning, smiling all the way, takes a bath, and then goes to the Supreme Court Chamber, with the result that he weighs about 60 pounds less...
...hour from London, famed for biscuit factories. Its chief health officer- Dr. Milligan-delivered a report on the weight and height of its children as compared with American juveniles. He found that Americans were greater in both dimensions. At age 12, American boys stand 56¼ inches and weigh 79 pounds. Reading boys stand 54¼, weigh...
Freshman who wish to represent their dormitory will weigh in just before their bouts tomorrow. Bouts have been arranged in the 118, 125, 135, 147, 160, 175, and the unlimited classes, and present indications show about four from each class in each dormitory among the contestants...
...clock tomorrow afternoon all men will weigh in and assemble at Hemenway gymnasium...
...There's really nothing much to it," he added. "I intend merely to weigh the water vapor which is present in every breath we exhale. It's the same vapor that we see on a cold...