Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Between seasons Colonel Wise once tested, and later compared with a shark's, the pull that a man can exert swimming against rod & reel. His figures for a 6 ft. 3 in. Princeton water poloist harnessed, and for young male Sand sharks of the same weight (200 lb.) hooked in the mouth...
Most diverting of all her stunts was her weight-reducing campaign. Called "The Big Girl" because of her 251 Ib. when she took office, she decided to reduce after she made trips to her municipal bathing beach and her own life guards laughed when she waddled out in a bathing suit, size 52. For more than a year all Wildwood watched her gamely shake off pound after pound. When she lost 102 lb.and two of her chins, there was municipal rejoicing. Mayor Bradway further endeared herself to sporting Wildwoodmen at a wrestling match in the Municipal Auditorium. The audience became...
...that War Admiral got. Trainer Conway had him exercised just enough to give him an appetite but not enough to tire him. Instead of two meals a day, he got snacks between meals and suppers at midnight whenever he appeared hungry. Careful stuffing raised little War Admiral's weight 100 Ib. over the winter. He finally contrived to grow from 15 hands to 15 hands, 3 inches. Listed in the Derby winter books at 15-to-1, War Admiral's odds dropped fast when he won two races at Havre de Grace this spring. In both he exhibited...
What the current delegation lacks in absolute face cards, as compared to that of 1935, is compensated by weight other of numbers. Besides President Conant other officers now in Indiana Include Deans Hanford, Chase, Plimpton, Deans-elect Landis and Williams, Professors Henderson, Mayo, Dill, T. N. Whitehead, Doctor Bock. Professor-emeritus Taussig and Secretary to the University Little...
...principle of "balance-in-motion" is relatively simple. By means of electrobasographs Dr. Schwartz determined that in natural walking the big toe propels the body forward, the heel and outer margin of the middle feet merely bear weight. The heel strikes the ground first, stays there 0.4 sec. Then, 0.15 sec. after the beginning of the heel's impact, the middle foot begins a 0.4-sec. roll upon the ground. Just as the heel lifts clear, the big toe comes down for a 0.2-sec. contact. The instant the toe of one foot is ready to leave the ground...