Word: chickens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Canyon, Tex., Dr. C. A. Pierle analyzed the body of a man weighing 150 pounds. It contained-'enough water to wash a pair of blankets, enough iron to make a tenpenny nail, lime sufficient to whitewash a small chicken-coop, enough sulphur to kill the fleas of a good-sized dog.' All these elements, he estimated, can be purchased at a drugstore for 98c."- TIME...
...Surgeons last week at Montreal: "It is the spirit within him that makes the man supreme in the world and allows him to control materialistic things. . . . Consider the average 150-pound body of a man from its chemical aspect. It contains lime enough to whitewash a fair-sized [sic] chicken-coop, sugar enough to fill a small shaker, iron to make a tenpenny nail, plus water. The total value of these ingredients is 98 cents...
...Fried chicken above Lake Erie...
...equivalent of 250,000 years for humans), and has yet died no natural death. Dr. Thomas H. Morgan of Columbia found that 1/250th part of a worm will regenerate and become younger than the original worm. Dr. Alexis Carrel of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research has kept a chicken's heart alive and growing for 15 years, longer than any ordinary chicken ever lived. Dr. Carrel sailed for a vacation on the Continent last week...
When asked about her training rules furlong distance swimming, Miss Ederle stated. "Oh, I eat whatever I want whenever I want it. Before swimming the channel, for instance, I had some cornbread, half a broiled chicken, and some coffee. Of course one can't eat in a civilized fashion while touring in theatres. But I still manage to get my three meals a day. I find that is sufficient for training...