Word: diet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yorkers, who are used to a rich musical diet, were not noticeably impressed by the bill-of-fare. Yet on one night last week Manhattan musicgoers, if they liked opera, had a choice of Madama Butterfly at the Met or Eugen Onegin at the City Center in its first New York performance in eleven years. If they wanted symphony, they could hear their own Philharmonic-with Violinist Mischa Elman-at Carnegie Hall, or hear Serge Koussevitsky's famed Boston Symphony, playing an "overflow" concert, one of four performances the Bostonians played in New York last week...
...Imperial appearance highlighted a day of strange contrasts. In the morning Hirohito, in an ancient Shinto ceremony at the palace shrine, reported the promulgation to the souls of his ancestors. Later he drove (in a handsome, black Mercedes-Benz with maroon trim) to the Diet to read his Imperial Rescript in high-pitched, colloquial Japanese. At the palace celebration, Hirohito emerged in an open horse-drawn carriage...
...week, he studied art in London, where he lived chiefly on bread & milk. Later he changed his venue (to Manhattan), but not his diet. His animal drawings began to catch on. St. Nicholas magazine published some of his first output of animal stories...
...early stages, arthritis can often be relieved, sometimes cured, by X rays, injections of gold salts, fever treatment, vaccines, heat applications. But treatments are still hit or miss; too little is known of the disease and its cause. Most doctors believe that worry, infection or poor diet may make a person susceptible. But they are betting that the actual culprit will prove to be a germ...
...soil, the exponent of scientific farming. He was a dreamer, and a scientist who developed a hybrid corn. Franklin Roosevelt made him his Secretary of Agriculture and he went to Washington -a shy, humble man with a cowlick, who once put himself on an exclusive diet of soybeans just to prove a point. He proved that soybeans are not enough...