Word: weighs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make them tough, Japanese wrestlers are trained from the cradle, fed on underdone beefsteak when normal children are still milk-bibbing. They grow to enormous size, sometimes are seven feet tall, weigh 400 Ib. Like Samson's, their hair is uncut. Their early training consists mostly of walking around looking for a movable mass of stone or wood; when such a mass is sighted the would-be wrestler gathers himself together, gets a running start, and hurls himself at it with a mighty grunt. After several years of displacing boulders the candidate is considered tough enough to begin learning...
...weight, Mrs. Anthony Caruso's seventh child, born in Newark last week, should have been nine months old. He weighed 18 Ib. at birth. Ordinarily newborn infants weigh 7 Ib. During the first two or three days they usually lose 5 or 6 oz., but regain it by the beginning of the second week. Then the ordinary infant adds poundage until he weighs 20 to 21 Ib. at his first birthday. Mrs. Caruso's 18-lb. son, if he gains weight in proportion to his pre-natal precocity, will weigh 36 Ib. July 1, 54 Ib. next...
Rescued from the dark and taken to Gallinger Hospital, Edith was found to weigh 38 Ib. Her legs were too spindly to support her shrunken body. She stared at nurses with lifeless eyes. In six weeks, however, she learned to play with dolls and children, gained 20 Ib. In court the child heard but did not pay much attention to her parents' defense: that Edith "was given to certain vicious practices," that she had to be kept away from neighborhood children, that her stepmother was not "mentally responsible...
...week as he strode from room to room in Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital, smiling at patients and fussing with x-ray machines. He had just received word of a European loan. Next month will arrive a $280,000 package addressed to him. Stripped of its wrappings it will weigh exactly four grams-about as much as a new U. S. penny-and it will make Dr. Kaplan guardian of more radium than anybody else in the Western Hemisphere. Of the 100 grams in the U. S. & Canada, 40 grams will be combined in New York's hospitals. England...
...towering coiffures and hats of Queen Mary: Returning from the Orient, Prince Henry, third son of Their Majesties, took an orchestra and a gay group of passengers to the ship's nursery for dancing. Discovering a set of scales with height-measuring attachment, H. R. H. proceeded to weigh and measure each & every guest. When a guest with a high pompadour stepped up, Prince Henry pressed his hair down, remarked: "I have to pat you down like papa does mamma sometimes...