Word: aridities
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...Vitamin X." "Vitamins," now so popular, were unknown ten years ago. They have not been isolated. They cannot be seen or weighed. They came to light only when it was found that diets apparently perfectly balanced according to pre-existent information did not provide proper nourishment in some cases arid even brought on certain "; deficiency "; diseases (e. g., scurvy, beriberi, pellagra). There are three major vitamins (Fat-soluble A, Water-soluble B, Water-soluble C), and all three must be present in any correct diet. Plenty of milk and oranges or tomatoes will furnish all of them. But they...
...Hubert Work, Secretary of the Interior, resorted to the expedient, now no longer novel, of appointing a " fact finding commission" to attempt to solve a difficult problem. It is the problem of irrigating the arid and semi-arid lands of the West. The Government has invested over $100,000,000 in this activity, and now finds that it will have difficulty in getting its money back...
...Although only recently charged with the responsibility of Reclamation, I am not a stranger to the irrigation of arid lands, but prefer, however, not to suggest procedure and would not expect to advance opinions to this commission unless requested, asking only that the questions may be treated with open publicity and that I may transmit your report...
...singers are in America. Recent operatic performances at La Scala have been most distinguished, but not out of any plenitude of superlative voices. The glory has rested with the orchestral and ensemble elements of the performances. Toscanini is the world's supreme conductor. By sheer mastery of nuance arid phrase and tone building in the mass he is able to lift an opera to a plane where the qualities of the solo voices count for little...
...until Quezon's outburst. The new Mayor, Eulogio Rodriguez, it seemed, however, had been convicted in 1900, aged 16, of procuring the abduction of a woman by bandits. He had served a year in Bilibid Penitentiary. Subsequently, 1901-1907, he was in the Government service as an interpreter arid in other capacities. In 1909 the Governor General appointed him Mayor of Montalban, Rizal. In 1916 he was elected Governor of Rizal. In 1922 he was reelected. In 1916, when elected Governor, the Governor General made an investigation of Rodriguez's record, and Rodriguez was allowed to stay...