Word: fats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coach McGall's theory of the Negro's protruding heel is disputed by such an eminent anthropologist as Johns Hopkins' Dr. Adolph Hans Schultz. Reason: The protrusion consists of fat and connective tissue, does not affect leverage...
...major Bolshevik objective pursued without success ever since the fall of Tsardom: to float a fat Soviet loan abroad and get Bolshevik bonds regularly listed on an exchange outside Russia...
...week that followed the Supreme Court's destruction of NRA found most of Washington running around trying to find ways of putting Humpty Dumpty together again. General Johnson was reported busy drafting a new statute. Fat and jolly Governor Nice of Maryland issued an invitation for all governors to prepare state substitutes for NRA. Officials in NRA and businessmen fond of NRA devised strange schemes and ingenious devices to get around the Supreme Court's ruling. But by the end of the week one fact was manifest: The Supreme Court had shattered NRA into such fine particles that...
...distinguished guests wandered off to inspect the Jersey cows, the Hampshire hogs, the gambusia fish, the flat fat fields, the workshops in which a War-ridden poverty-stricken peasantry is being guided toward economic independence...
When in 1921 Professor James Harvey Robinson wrote approvingly of the work of Vilfredo Pareto in his The Mind in the Making, few U. S. readers had heard the name of that eminent Italian sociologist or knew what sort of ideas he had advanced in his nine fat volumes. Widely recognized in Europe as a social scientist of great originality and erudition, as a vigorous commentator on world affairs in French and Italian newspapers, as professor of political economy at the University of Lausanne, Pareto's transatlantic reputation grew slowly after his death in 1923 and was almost entirely...