Word: ams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"I hold that it is the best policy to speak the unvarnished truth. I have found a pleasant atmosphere in the discussions so far. Nevertheless, I have had difficulty. Often I am reproached at the conference that I take everything too seriously and that I see everything too gloomily-but...
There was really little more to say, though Mr. Lloyd George declaimed in masterly fashion for over an hour, concluding: "There are people who are saying we will not be in a position to fulfill this pledge [to end unemployment]. Of one thing I am not in doubt?we shall...
"Half of people's appetite is a result of looking at food. Now that I can't see what I am eating I feel that I could very easily dispense with it."
Beautiful is the "Prayer of Maimonides," 12th Century Jewish physician-philosopher-teacher: "0 God, Thou hast formed the body of man with infinite goodness; thou hast united in him innumerable forces incessantly at work like so many instruments, so as to preserve in its entirety this beautiful house containing his...
Vilhjalmur Stefansson, who in his Arctic explorations often ate nothing but meat, last week completed in Manhattan a year's intensive meat-eating (no vegetables). Physicians of the Russell Sage Institute will report their findings in six months. Said Explorer Stefansson: "I feel perfectly fit, am wide awake, and am...