Word: dieted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Besides the diet of beer and pretzels at the Pops, there has been plenty of substantial musical fare available, since the end of the regular season. Last week the Lincoln Symphony concert on Thursday evening was unexpectedly good, especially n the performance of the Mozart concerto for flute and harp. Probably the best concert of the week, however, was the Friday night Open House at the Longy School. The program was made up entirely of early eighteenth century chamber music which is at its best in the atmosphere of intimacy and informality which these recitals always have. The concert...
...aboard by derrick, unloaded the same way. Asked how he met his wife, Barney Worth replied: "She came into my butcher's shop for some meat. She bought a lot, and I liked her idea of an appetite. ... It was love at first sight." An average Worth daily diet: 12 Ibs. of meat, five loaves of bread, three cabbages, many a goody...
...plan, as outlined to the Tokyo Diet's Budget Committee by Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai, will provide $329,177,940 over a period of six years to supplement building now going on. The Admiral said that latest plans of the U. S. and Britain had been taken into account in mapping the program, and provision made for increases in case those countries should further jack up their building rate...
...Nations' Technical Commission on Nutrition, headed by Britain's famed Sir Edward Mellanby, met in August to find out exactly how much a man must eat in order to stay alive. Last week the Lancet printed the nutritionists' report. The report suggested a basic minimum diet for war-torn countries which would tickle no palates and fill no stomachs but would maintain life for an indefinite period of time, and prevent such serious deficiency diseases as scurvy, pellagra, anemia, rickets...
...Other corrections: growing children need more cod-liver oil and skim-milk powder than adults, but less salt. If lemons or oranges are not available, the committee suggests that scurvy can be avoided by steeping any nonpoisonous green leaves in boiling water and making tea. Greatest lack in the diet is fat. For this less important element, the committee could offer only the lame suggestion that "fat [should be added] in such quantities as are available," trusted that famished civilians would scramble for peanuts, olives, soybeans or fatty fish...