Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Following on the heels of uproars in the French Chamber of Deputies and the Japanese Diet, described in the last issue of TIME, comes the news of tumultuous scenes in the Czecho-Slovakian Chamber of Deputies. When the Speaker announced that the report of the committee of Constitutional Law on the Defence of the Realm Bill would be read, Dr. Smeral, leader of the communists, gave the signal for a deafening onslaught of noise from his party. A tattoo was drummed with despatch boxes on the desks. Whistles, large bells and trumpets joined in one concerted, inharmonious, deafening...
...Imperial Diet concluded its session after enacting the entire government program...
During the final debate in the Lower House of the Diet on the question of resuming trade relations with Russia many speakers referred to the speech of Secretary of State Hughes in which he said: "We want to help . . . (but) . . . Russia's hope lies in Russia's action." Mr. Hughes' speech has created a deep impression in Japan among the leaders, many of whom wish to base their Russian policy upon that of the United States. For the present Japan will not recognize Russia...
...called"; Wassermann test "for syphilis, announced another achievement in preventive medicine- a method of determining the presence in the body of latent tuberculosis before it becomes active in the lungs. This will enable physicians to weed out the probable victims of the dis- ease. A regime of appropriate diet, rest and fresh air, applied in special schools and at home, will then go far to prevent tuberculosis from claiming those who would formerly have been its prey. Dr. Wassermann's method-he refuses to call it a discovery-is the result of long research based on the groundwork...
Free-for-all fights in the French Chamber and the Tokyo Diet...