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Word: weight (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Benka heaved the shot 57' 2 1/2" for the winning medal as teammates Charlie Ajootian, Jake Driscoll, and Bruce Hedendal all bettered 50 feet for third, fourth, and fifth places. Ajootian led a similar sweep in the 35-pound weight, twirling the ball 59' 1/2". Ed Nosal, Driscoll, and Dave Bernstein followed with three of the four follow-up places. In the long jump, Skip Hare leaped 23'2" to top a field of New England collegians...

Author: By Richard T. Howe, | Title: Six Trackmen 1st Places Bring Harvard to Victory | 1/13/1969 | See Source »

...that Goffman brings to his appraisal of the human scene. To him, a hanging is a social event, circumscribed, just like a one-day sale or a picnic, by rules calculated to make the performance go smoothly. For this reason, he says, a "table of drops" based on body weight was worked out by long experience "so that the length of the free fall would neither leave the man to wriggle nor tear off his head." The true stagecraft of a funeral, says Goffman, is found "backstage," away from the flower-bedecked parlor. "If the bereaved are to be given...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sociology: Exploring a Shadow World | 1/10/1969 | See Source »

Among the most intensively studied Americans are the townsfolk of Framingham, Mass., where 6,500 men and women out of a population of 45,000 have had their blood pressure, cholesterol levels, weight and smoking habits checked for a dozen years against their development of heart disease and their incidence of heart attacks. The Framingham results to date, says Dr. William B. Kannel, indicate that a man with high blood cholesterol has almost three times the average risk of a heart attack. More alarming, if one man is exposed to two threefold risk factors-a heavy smoker with high blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: To Save the Heart: Diet by Decree? | 1/10/1969 | See Source »

M.I.T. has three other strong wrestlers in Jack Maxham (145), Jim Hawkins (152), and Vincent Price (177). All three won their weight classes in the New England League Tournament last winter to give M.I.T. a second place finish behind Springfield...

Author: By Ben Beach, | Title: Unbeaten Wrestlers Face Strong M.I.T. Challengers | 1/8/1969 | See Source »

Nevertheless, the Crimson is a clear favorite. Harvard won its only dual meet over Franklin & Marshall and dominated the N.E.A.A.U. tournament three weeks ago. With the exception of John Imrie and Tony Raynor, all wrestlers are healthy and down to weight. Imrie is recovering from a rib injury and will compete against Cornell on Saturday. Raynor...

Author: By Ben Beach, | Title: Unbeaten Wrestlers Face Strong M.I.T. Challengers | 1/8/1969 | See Source »

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