Word: spryer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some 475 '24 graduates and their families spearhead the giant Harvard delegation of fans along with the spryer members of 1899 and the soberer of the 1939 crowd. The male members of this throng will march behind the band to the filed shortly before game time, while mothers and daughters will struggle to the diamond as best they...
Hormones have proved a failure in making older people feel younger, reported Pharmacologist Dr. Chauncey D. Leake, vice president of the University of Texas Medical Branch. But there is some hope, he said, in experimental work on vitamins as a means of making oldsters feel at least a little spryer. There seems no possibility of learning how to keep the heart, blood vessels and kidneys in first-class working condition deep into old age. But, asked Dr. Leake: "Do any of us want to? ... Will it not be possible for us some day to realize that death is a part...
...back and too much golf. Then, with a sigh, he pulled himself together and hobbled 36 holes in 6 under par to tie for medal honors in the Professional Golfers' Association Championship. That still left a long row of match play to hoe, and Nelson was feeling no spryer...
...Steel's new chairman, Irving S. Olds, said that industry must be left alone. Next day he conceded that pressure might become so strong that priorities would have to be exercised. While huge U. S. Steel strained to get up from 96% of theoretical capacity to 100%, spryer, smaller Bethlehem Steel actually had to refuse some commercial orders in order to rush steel to the Navy. Many a specialty producer's unfilled orders continued to pile up. One such was little Crucible Steel. Its canny, portly president, Raoul Desvernine, who in last October's phony boom warned...