Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people of other Catholic countries also punish Judas at the end of Holy Week. In Spain and Portugal and several Latin American countries, peasants burn Judas in effigy. Mexicans blow him to bits with firecrackers...
Oxalic acid, it seems, is bad because it eats up calcium that the youngster needs in order to grow strong bones and teeth. If the child is getting lots of milk and has calcium to burn, the result may not be too bad, provided the oxalic salts do not rotate the bladder or turn into kidney stones. But if children are not getting enough milk and protein, spinach just makes things worse by cutting down the calcium available for the bones. As for the good things that are supposed to be in spinach, such as vitamin C and iron...
Does the high pressure of their jobs cause top corporation executives to burn out faster and die earlier than other men? Though industry still lacks the statistics to make a watertight case, the answer seems to be yeas. After checking the health of more than 25,000 executives averaging 45.6 years old, New York's Extension Examiners found that only 20% were in normal health. In Chicago's Michael Reese Hospital, three doctors examined 55 executives under so years of age, found only three entirely free from organic disorders. Of 340 Standard Oil (N J.) executives reporting...
...which included 25 operations, years in wheelchairs and on crutches. Finally she walked onstage again, but she still needs a heavy, ugly brace (she is now a $4,000-a-week TV star). In 1948 Jane divorced her husband, Singer Donald Ross, a month later married Pilot John C. Burn, a fellow survivor of the Lisbon crash who had helped pull her out of the Tagus despite his own broken back...
...April 1952, Captain Burn was piloting another Pan Am plane, en route to New York from Puerto Rico, when it crashed into the sea, killing 52. He was charged with "questionable flying technique" by the Civil Aeronautics Board, left Pan Am two week...