Word: beefing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thanks to the work of the Medical School's Frederick J. Pohle, Assistant in Medicine, and Francis H. L. Taylor, Research Associate in Medicine, a magic powder prepared from beef blood, has just been discovered, a powder that is more effective in stopping bleeding in hemophilia than any other known treatment...
...good hearty meal of corned beef, cabbage and boiled potatoes is not only a pleasure to the palate but a pretty pill, for the vegetables are rich in Vitamin C. But not everyone who tucks into this dish is assured of firm joints and healthy blood capillaries, for Vitamin C is a delicate thing, easily destroyed by combination with oxygen or improper cooking. Last week in Nature, Physiologists A. Høygaard and H. Waage Rasmussen of the University of Oslo, Norway reported the results of extensive potato-boiling. They found "16-19% more ascorbic acid [Vitamin C] left when...
...Robson as her doting grandmother, for his chief associates. The terrain, however, is far more suitable for coyotes than for foxes, and Cinemactor Scott's closest approach to the atmosphere to which he is accustomed in his private life is supplied by a herd of 10,000 snuffling beef cattle which he and Miss Bennett drive up the Chisholm Trail, from the Rio Grande to Kansas...
...ferry run across St. George's Channel from Cork. Below decks a cargo of Irish cattle and pigs bellowed and squealed. Higher up, in a snug cabin, a heavyset, greying gentleman of 64 and a red-haired girl of 25 slumbered, as they afterwards said, undisturbed. The noisy beef and bacon had been put ashore long before the two passengers emerged and a newshawk obtained their first honeymoon interview...
Howard Evans is the blunt headmaster of the Betteshanger School in Dover, England. Headmaster Evans believes in good bodies, declares that a man who develops a "monstrous girth" commits a social crime. Three weeks ago he debarked nine of his cheek-blown, beef-eating Betteshanger boys in Manhattan, had them show U. S. citizens proper methods of breathing and exercise. Last week, having seen as well as shown, Headmaster Evans prepared to ship his brood back to England, paused to observe that the average U. S. boy was superior in physique to the English boy. But he added a warning...