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Word: weight (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...next track event is to be 35 pound weight handicap on Monday at 8.30 in the new cage. This is to be open to the whole University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SIXTY RUNNERS SPRINT FOR INFORMAL RACES | 12/14/1929 | See Source »

...about five year intervals. The probable cause of last week's quake, according to Arthur Keith, chairman of the National Research Council's Committee on Geology and Geography, is counter pressure. When glaciers and icecaps a mile thick covered eastern Canada and northeastern U. S., their weight squeezed the land rocks downward. Now the rocks are slowly bulging upwards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Earthquake Aftermath | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

After the rather disasterous defeat by Yale last year the season does not look very promising as far as ready material goes. But with the return of J. F. Solano '30 after a year's absence, and with a number of likely candidates in the heavy-weight divisions there should be possibilities of a creditable team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WRESTLING SQUAD TO HOLD MEETING MONDAY | 11/15/1929 | See Source »

...foods. Their predecessors had believed that pure carbohydrates, proteins and fats alone were sufficient nutrition to supply an animal with its essential energy, to provide it with material for new growth, to replace its waste tissue. Researchers, including Dr. Hopkins, discovered that animals fed on "pure" diets lost weight and died. He found (1906) that a little milk in the diet kept the animals from dying and concluded that the milk must contain some unknown ingredient (vitamin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Nobel Prizemen | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

Eastern boxing arbiters regard with disfavor the roughness of towheaded middle-weight contender Ace Hudkins. They regard with suspicion the astuteness of Jack Kearns, manager of Middle-weight Champion Mickey Walker. Before Hudkins and Walker got in a ring together one cool starry night in Los Angeles last week, rumors went about that Kearns had a contract in his pocket to manage Hudkins. These rumors kept betting down, but proved unfounded as soon as Walker's first rights and lefts thudded home. Before long Hudkins' coarse face, misshapen by the beatings he is accustomed to take even when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Walker v. Hudkins | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

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