Word: dieted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. "Old Lady," 28, Toronto Zoo's vegetarian baboon; in her sleep; in Toronto. Her keeper, Bill Ford, thought the addition to her diet of carrots, tomatoes and greens accounted for her living twice the normal life span of baboons. She had four children, four grandchildren, two great-grandchildren. Said Keeper Ford: "She was the finest mother I ever knew. Humans could benefit by watching her. She did not allow her children to slap their children. When she saw that done, she hit her own children and took the grandchildren away. But when the child deserved punishment, she administered...
Partially as a warning he went on to say that the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences differs peculiarly from every other part of the university. In the other schools, given a normal mentality, by diet of hard work one is almost certain to get a degree. Here this does not hold good. Even with work and an average mentality, unless one has a flair for the subject, one may have to drop...
...Rehn, who last week was happy to have as his guest a prominent U. S. attorney who would surely understand. With Nazi guards clicking out salutes, President Rehn showed William Ormonde Thompson, Clarence Darrow's onetime partner, all over the Court, now handsomely installed in Prussia's onetime Diet Building. He explained to Mr. Thompson how much better Nazi justice is than the justice it replaced. Take evidence, for example. "The need for factual evidence," Guest Thompson learned, "in many cases has been due to the erroneous reasoning of the jurists, and therefore should be eliminated! The guilt or innocence...
...this week the Dionne quintuplets were three months old. All of them were ready to change their diet from "mother's milk," shipped from Montreal and Toronto, to modified cow's milk. Only Emilie and Marie, the two smallest, remained in incubators. All five totaled 31 Ib. 8-oz., more than three times the 10 Ib. ½-oz. of their first official weight. Almost finished was the special house, opposite the Dionne homestead, in which they will spend their first icy winter as guests of the Canadian Government...
...sentry on the border. A kind old man, he was fond of children, who were fond of him. What worried him was that Marie, aged 14, and her friends played too close to the live wire. Marie used to share delicacies with the old man, welcome relief from a diet of black bread and potatoes. Suddenly Old Fritz, bewildered, was transferred and Marie was arrested and condemned to death. Later her sentence was commuted to life imprisonment and after the war this "stocky, wide-eyed Jeanne d'Arc" was awarded a British decoration...