Word: shorter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Open Golf Champion Jack Nicklaus, 22, does not shake a leg on the links, predicted oldtime Pro Gene Sarazen, 60, his future as a top-ranking golfer will be shorter than a duffer's drive...
...which added up to $38.32 more a week, spread over the next two years. But as broken down by management, the I.T.U. package suggested exorbitance. Among other things, Bert Powers' printers are asking $3.25 per week in extra pension and welfare contributions, $19 more in pay for a shorter week. The union has also flatly refused to yield its time-dishonored right to set bogus type, a featherbedding practice that involves hand-composing, and then throwing away unused, all advertisements received in mat form. With appropriate contempt, the publishers call this makework "dead horse." The I.T.U. has also rejected...
...Charles N. Pease; parents should pay more heed to warnings about the possible dangers from vitamin overdosage. In the A.M.A. Journal, Dr. Pease cites specific examples of damage done by too much vitamin A: it has stunted children's growth or left one leg two to three inches shorter than the other...
...Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago. Dr. Pease has studied one 18-year-old girl ever since she was seven. When he first saw the patient, her left leg was already two inches shorter than her right. He learned that when she was three, her mother had given her almost three teaspoonfuls of vitamin-A preparation every day-about 50 times as much as the three drops her doctor had prescribed to treat a mild rash. The overdosage could be measured in the girl's blood, which showed a vitamin-A level of 943 units, compared with...
...vitamins when she was only three weeks old. The baby also got one egg yolk every day; soon, she got vegetables generously doused with butter. The diet added up to an enormous oversupply of vitamin A. Now nine years old, the girl has a right leg almost three inches shorter than her left...