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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...disease has risen from 27th to 10th place among causes of death, and it is now killing more older women than tuberculosis. From 2% to 3% of all living Americans will eventually die of diabetes.* What is the explanation? Why are more & more people unable to use or store the sugar in the food they eat? To a very slight degree this rise is a statistical illusion. In the last 40 years more people have been going to doctors, and more doctors have begun looking for diabetes. In the past diabetes was sometimes overlooked as a cause of death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Diet or Die | 8/31/1942 | See Source »

Tragic fact is that the rising death rate from diabetes is by no means inevitable and is needlessly high. Many sufferers can forestall a diabetic death by following a diet prescribed by a physician. It is significant that diabetic doctors die of the disease only one-fourth as often as diabetic laymen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Diet or Die | 8/31/1942 | See Source »

Less anxious, Smith waits until September 16, when Harvard will be entering exam agonies, to take the first step. Connecticut and Vassar all follow within a few weeks. And as they open, Wig grows thin, giggles die down, and the girls hope earnestly that summer friendships are lasting friendships...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: And Then Out at Wellesley We Have 1800 Beautiful. | 8/26/1942 | See Source »

Chief fault of the U.S. citizen army remained its greenness. That could be mended only under fire. But war had brought valuable fruits to men in training: horne in on them at last was the realization that a soldier could die in battle, but he could live and win too if he had the know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: The Soldiers' Temper | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

...Bombay park. The meeting was broken up, but not before other speakers read the last message from Gandhi: "Every man is free to go to the fullest length under ahimsa (non violence) for complete deadlock by strikes and all other possible means. Karenge ya Marenge! (Do or Die...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Frogs in a Well | 8/17/1942 | See Source »

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