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Word: baseness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pump and Tubes. Contrary to common medical opinion, said Dr. Boas, aging does not inevitably bring heart disease and arteriosclerosis (hardening of the arteries). There is a great difference, he continued, between natural withering and the "external insults" of disease. With age the human heart grows broader at the base, more pointed at the apex. Heart muscle fibres turn dark brown, heart valves stretch like old rubber tubes, lose their youthful elasticity. But all of these changes are normal, none spells doom. In healthy persons "the cardiac pump itself usually functions without faltering into advanced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Old Hearts, Old Brains | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

Pitching for the first six innings was Bob Lusskin, being relieved in the last three by Dick Hardling. Bob Axtell was behind the placed for eight innings, while Jay McConville played the last one. Bart Harvey was by far the most consistent infielder, accepting many difficult plays at second base with only one error...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN BATSMEN LOSE | 5/9/1940 | See Source »

...those blows in a row. Tied for most number of hits are Cornell's twin bombers, George Polzer and Ronnie Stillman, each with ten safeties. Walter Scholl, of Cornell, and Bill Koepsell, of Pennsylvania, are tied in the Princeton A. A. Cup competition for individual base-stealing, each with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BIG RED LEADS BALL LEAGUE NOW; YALE IN SECOND PLACE | 5/7/1940 | See Source »

...other words, record merchandising may be at a saturation-point now; Victor is shifting to a larger mass production which will more quickly reach saturation and provide a larger base for a later shift to the film medium...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: SWING | 5/3/1940 | See Source »

...fifth the Crimson put together a tally on singles by Regan and Keyes and Lee Hartstone's fly, but Prior's looping homer with Todd on base in the seventh squashed Crimson hopes...

Author: By John W. Ballantine, | Title: Alumni Take Batsmen In Practice Game, 5-3 | 5/2/1940 | See Source »

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