Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...advise that practice as a steady diet," Swett cautioned, "but it shows how that traditional Harvard indifference isn't so strong as is commonly believed...
...Birds are the only restraining force on these harmful pests, for noxious insects form their main diet. Ninety-eight per cent of the wren's meals are these dangerous caterpillars, and thus they are reduced to a harmless minimum...
...these days when screen action is swift and vivid and of absorbing interest, the growing luridness of "Ebb Tide" is not a pleasant change in cinematic diet but in spite of its spasmodic gait it does create tension in its closing minutes. Nevertheless one still goes home distracted by unanswered situations and incidental superfluities in the script. In short, "Ebb Tide" is not recommended...
...This attraction to leaves developed in intensity as the weeks passed and finally culminated the night his employer gave a costume ball to please his wife, who was always wanting parties. By this time Mr. Pinkle's diet was so bound up with leaves that he had to have a dozen elm trees planted in his yard...
Only after completing a scholarly dissertation on classical music did Claude consent to jazz. "I prefer a smooth, neatly arranged style," he said. Hot tunes are good to break the monotony, and they make a sweet tune sound bettre but a steady diet of swing is boring...