Word: containers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Much stress has been laid by the press on the fact that Stefansson and Anderson did not develop scurvy. There was no reason why they should develop scurvy, beri beri, or chilblains. All three vitamins, A, B and C, are present in small amounts in fresh lean meat; liver contains more of them. Other foodstuffs contain even more, it is true, but if the men were allowed all they wanted to eat, they would get enough of the essential vitamins in the beef products to satisfy. The real interest in such an experiment lies in the effect of a meat...
...announcement that Harvard will this spring have the first officially recognized Freshman golf team of its history would have less meaning if it did not contain restrictions which wound the importance of golf in the minds of the athletic authorities. The checks upon the innovation-that the schedule will be limited to two games and that the Freshman team will play under the same adverse conditions which have in the past, confronted the University team-seem to be justified in the case of golf...
...years ago, after the death of famed Editor Victor F. Lawson, the News was bought by Walter A. Strong and a group of Chicago businessmen. The new house will contain a Lawson Memorial Room, panelled with carved oak taken from the Lawson residence on Lake Shore Drive...
There are 880,000 words in the Bible; 940,000 in the complete works of William Shakespeare. Add these together and season with the Arabian Nights of Scheherazade; the mixture will fail to fill a pot as big as that which would contain the Revelations of a Wife, 3,000,000-word novel, longest in the world...
...unique ticket will contain only candidates who have been approved by the Fascist Grand Council, a body whose members are appointed by Signor Mussolini...