Word: dieted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME, May 18) he managed by process of amalgamation to swell his party's numbers from 100 to 150, making it the second largest party in the Diet. He began negotiations with the Seiyuhonto President, M. Tokonami, urged him to join the Seiyukai Party which would then have an absolute majority of the votes with 266 seats...
...Diet (Parliament) decided last week that there shall be a great partition of property throughout the land...
...owner may own near a city or industrial centre more than 150 acres and in the eastern border lands more than 750 acres. All surplus property, under the meaning of the act passed by the Diet, is to be purchased from the landlords by cash and 5% bonds and sold to the peasant on credit terms extending over 40 years...
...hope of obtaining perfectly pure insulin, of learning its chemical constituents (he is inclined to believe it is a sulphur compound) with the possibility of eventually making it synthetically and also ot discovering a contributing cause of diabetes mellitus in the absence of certain sulphur compounds from the diet...
...sought trails from the Parima valley into the Orinoco country. He found none, but located a tribe of furtive, stunted "white" Indians, the Shiritanas, who exhibited neither fear nor curiosity at sight of the white men and their aircraft. The Shiritanas favored cocaine as a relish for their diet of plantains. They wore no clothing, carried bows strung with poisoned arrows, moved in and out between the trees "like jaguars," without making a sound or causing a rustle of the leaves...