Word: ated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wasting nerve disease called beriberi, which had afflicted rice-eating Orientals for thousands of years, was caused not by a harmful agent that got into the body but by the lack of a beneficial agent which did not get in. A Dutchman, Christian Eijkman, found that chickens which ate nothing but polished rice developed beriberi, but that if the chickens ate the rice coatings they got better. For a quarter century Dr. Robert Runnels Williams of Bell Telephone Laboratories labored to extract the mysterious "vitamin" from rice coatings, finally squeezed 1/6 oz. from a ton of raw material. Later Vitamin...
Cabbage & Compote. In Vienna last week, first intimate details of Chancellor Schuschnigg's recent parley with Chancellor Hitler at Berchtesgaden (TIME, Feb. 28) became known. During lunch Vegetarian Hitler ate cooked red cabbage as his pièce de résistance, consumed a fruit compote for dessert. Dr. Schuschnigg and the others consumed cold lobster and "fresh asparagus grown under sun lamps," the Germans said. The talk at luncheon, following the two Chancellors' private conference and agreement, was of horse breeding mainly. The Austrian Chancellor's entourage considered it in bad taste that a high German...
...into rough weather and it turned out that none of them knew navigation, they beached the boat, started back through dense jungle for the Penal Colony. A peg-legged convict killed a comrade for his can of condensed milk, and the leader in turn killed him. They roasted and ate his liver and his good left leg, of which Belbenoit confesses that one mouthful (which tasted like wild pig) was enough...
...operations; in Oklahoma City, Okla. After earning $1,000,000 in seven years in insurance, Arnett retired, took up secret studies of archaeology, eugenics, Greek philosophy, medicine, law, agriculture, drainage, geology, manufacturing, commerce, anthropology. He bought 60,000 books, hired 17 assistants. For a time he worked 100 hours, ate only one large meal, read at least seven books each week. He married twice on Christmas Day. He left one invention, the gourdcumber, "a cucumber as drought-resistant as the Spanish gourd"; and many lengthy treatises, the last of which was The New Deal vs. The New World. His ambition...
...revolution changed from a matter of singing in the streets to a grim and hopeless siege, a subtle change came over them. Mr. Witt, who stayed in his shaded study, ate oranges, made wise remarks to the English consul and watched the shells exploding in the blue waters of the bay, grew mysteriously old, suspicious, weary. Milagritos, who prepared bandages, went with the rebel fleet on its biggest battle, seemed to grow younger, prettier, less communicative. When Milagritos' cousin was sentenced to be shot, Mr. Witt raced to save him, although he had always been mildly disturbed by Milagritos...