Word: decays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nonsense, said the A.M.A. Journal, to advise mothers to cut out all sweets (including fruits and other foods containing natural sugar) from the diet of children with high rates of tooth decay. It is all right in such cases to cut out candy, .heavily sweetened drinks, etc., but to eliminate all carbohydrates is unwise-and also impossible...
However, Dr. Spock still insists on some rules: "Candy does a child no good, and encourages decay of the teeth. Postpone it as long as possible . . . Most important, don't offer it as a bribe for eating other foods or being good. This dangling of candy before a child keeps increasing his appetite...
...deeply regret this state of things. For without competition the game goes stale, and the ingenuity of youth lies dormant. This will inevitably lead to the decay of capitalism, individualism, religion, and even the very future of Western Civilization. Accordingly, we welcome any parody, or for that matter, any other sign of life from Princeton. If the Princetonians will show us some spirit, we will show them their flag...
...pumpkin on top of the book that has for many years held John's undivided attention. But the Grounds Crew came to the slow-witted scholar's rescue with a ladder and a long pole. The crew reported through its collective nose that the intruder suffered from acute internal decay, but the statue maintained its dignity and an Ozymandian silence...
...produce the stark theories and dark case histories of Vienna's Dr. Sigmund Freud. Austria's late Novelist Robert Musil, known in the U.S. for his ponderously brilliant masterpiece, The Man Without Qualities (TIME, June 8, 1953; Nov. 15, 1954), had a sharp eye for the moral decay behind Vienna's comfy façades. His first novel, brought out in 1906 and now published in the U.S. for the first time, lights up some nasty corners of adolescence in an aristocratic military school just like the one Musil himself attended...