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Word: bernarr (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gladsome month of May the State of Michigan will hold its Industrial Exposition. The exhibition will include 180,000 square feet of floor space, farm machinery, candy, a Tampa band, electric motors, jewelry and Bernarr Macfadden. Mr. Macfadden, publisher of six magazines "with over two million circulation," is to be there in person to select the winner of a beauty contest; or rather, to choose a girl to be "America's Diana." Why is Mr. Mcfadden chosen for this purpose rather than any other famed publisher-William R. Hearst, or Cyrus Curtis, for example? The answer is that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Detroit Diane | 3/31/1924 | See Source »

...writes Simon Louis Katzoff, M. D., Ph. D., of Bridgeport, Conn., in Bernarr Macfadden's magazine called Physical Culture. Among other alleged opponents of "pus-instillers" he cites W. E. Gladstone, Victorian Premier of England. The main arguments are: 1) It is immoral to inject poison into the human body. 2) Smallpox is a filth-disease and hygiene is the sure preventative. 3) Compulsory vaccination is tyrannical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Pus-Instillers | 2/25/1924 | See Source »

...food for 30 days, steady work and an hourly drink of water?that is the program of Bernarr Macfadden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A God-Driven Pen | 6/4/1923 | See Source »

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