Word: coconut
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nourishing Fat. The presence of fat compensates for a vitamin lack in the diet. Dr. Herbert McLean Evans and Dr. Samuel Lepkovsky of the University of California told Academicians that they had kept rats alive for months without vitamin B (necessary to prevent beriberi) by feeding them coconut oil, lard and cottonseed oil. Coconut oil was most effective, cottonseed oil the least...
...Coconut Grove, near Miami, its home anchorage, lay with sails furled, the 29-foot sloop of Author Kirk Munroe, of the Biscayne Bay Yacht Club, on a quiet Florida night last week. Then furtively came a thief to up anchor and sail away ghostlike to the south. In hot pursuit the next morning went Author Munroe, borne on the wings of a seaplane. Munroe's pilot dropped alongside of the sloop and the pursuer leapt aboard. At the point of a gun he forced the thief to come about, then he bound him and put out for the Coconut...
...effect the court unfrocked the Hindu Pontiff Shankara Racharya and held that all his holy acts are void. One such act was to receive Miss Miller into the Hindu faith as a true convert. Another was to marry her to her ex-Maharaja. A third was to impart a "coconut baptism" to her child...
...sacred coconut was blessed in India by the Hindu Primate, then carried by a Pundit to the Chateau Holkar on the outskirts of Paris, where it was broken and the virgin milk allowed to splash upon the naked girl-babe, who was christened Princess Sharada Raje Holkar, amid pious shouts of "Om! Shantih! Shantih"!! Shantih!!! "Oh! Peace! Peace!! Peace...