Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Japanese Federation of Labor, which refuses to recognize either the Japanese Diet or the International Labor Conference, stated in session at Tokyo that it will utilize both institutions as soon as universal manhood suffrage is granted in Japan...
...Beer and bread are the standard breakfast foods both frequently sour," according to a recent Harvard historian,--who also goes on to mention that an "Indian was generally the scullion." Thus one realizes that the present day quasi-barbaric dish is ineradicably rooted in hoary traditions. The staple winter diet at that time was salt meat, followed often by "pye." At a later period an Oxoulan wrote of us that. "There was much complaint about the quality of the food and cookery," and in 1791 it is reported by another chronicler that "diluted milk" was served, and that students desirous...
Although it is possible to control the weight of the body by diet and exercise, it is an everyday observation that some persons grow fat while eating relatively small amounts of food and apparently without relation to the amount of exercise they take. Others remain slender while consuming large quantities of candy, cream, milk, butter. Scientists are convinced that the body build is controlled to a considerable extent by heredity and other factors, such as some governing influence in the cells...
...eating a heavy dinner and going immediately to bed--where he regularly suffered from insomnia and indigestion. This, it is believed accounts for his cynical, gloomy philosophy. Similarly, "the bitter passages of Huxley's essays are attributed to dyspepsia, which resulted from overeating." It seems established that while the diet can neither produce nor defeat genius, it can nevertheless distort its application and profoundly affect disposition and character...
...attempted train wreck and charged it with complicity. The Premier refused to make a statement. The air then became thick with imprecations, shaking fists and water bottles. The Speaker was forced to adjourn the session. During the recess the Premier induced the Prince Regent to dissolve the Diet and so forestalled a vote of no confidence in the Government. Elections are to be held, but, meanwhile, the dissolution has created a "tense political atmosphere...