Word: aneurin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...food chemist, Mamie Olliver. The ascorbic acid (Vitamin C) content of potatoes, she found, is more than skin deep. In fact, said the Journal, the amount of vitamin "increases from without inwards. This admirable vegetable-. . . by no means to be neglected for its contribution of iron and aneurin [ Vitamin B1 ] -may have a rough exterior, but clearly conceals beneath it a heart of ascorbic acid...
...sooner were his words out than fiery Welsh Laborite Aneurin Bevan bawled: "Isn't it time that certain honorable Members shouldn't act as pimps of the Governments...