Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Naruhito, third son of the Emperor of Japan, who has been traveling! in Europe, cancelled a proposed visit to the U. S. No reason for the cancellation was given. The present Government announced that it would, if reëlected, introduce a bill in the next session of the Diet to grant suffrage to all* male Japanese subjects, except paupers, insane, etc. According to reports emanating from a British source, Japan is now seeking oil in Persia. This statement was founded upon the fact that Japanese commercial agents are there for the first time in the past 50 years. Said...
...Meanwhile the Philharmonic Orchestra got through one of its two positively final farewell encore appearances under Mr. Mengelberg. The parting diet consisted of another performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony (TIME, March 17), with a plangent, daringly lugubrious Bach cantata, Selig ist der Mann, as dessert...
...based is the patterns of the teeth. The elevations are identical with those of the Neanderthal and other primitive men, and nearly so with those of the Australian blacks and certain Indians, the most primitive of living races. Civilized men, after thousands of years of a soft, mainly agricultural diet, have a very different kind of dental pattern. In the Dryopithecus, the cusps had already expanded so that they met over the grooves, causing "tunnels," which are the potent causes of tooth decay in modern...
...districts with an extremely large proportion of goitres, noted that little had been said relative to babies born with goitre. In his own practice during one year, twelve babies were born with this condition. The goitre of the child is apparently caused by a deficiency of iodin in the diet of the mother. It may be prevented by giving the pregnant woman small doses of iodin regularly during the prenatal period...
Elections to the Bavarian Landtag (Diet) resulted in a large gain for the extreme Right and fairly large gain for the Communists, both of which were at the expense of the moderate parties. The gains of the Monarchists were described as "most spectacular, even for Bavaria...