Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...work has covered several phases of biochemistry; perhaps the most interesting was done in connection with vitamins. This was a feeding experiment carried out in 1906, in which Professor Hopkins observed the results of giving various diets to rats. The effects of different combinations of diet, the absence or presence of milk along with other foods, whether food is cooked or raw, and other factors enabled him to draw certain conclusions in regard to developing the theory of vitamins. He has also done very important work in collaboration with Sir Walter Fletcher on the chemical changes which accompany muscular contraction.SIR...
Tangora thought of his wife who was wringing her hands at the ringside, thought of his four months' training (golf, athlete's diet, and three hours daily at the key board), thought of the $100,000 insurance on his fingers, which were getting slippery in spite of the special preparation of talcum and alum with which they were coated, thought of the $10,000 that Royal would pay him for exhibitions if he won. He sprinted desperately...
Since corn is the staple hog diet, "corn on the hoof" (i.e., hogs) last week rose too. Headlines read: RETURN OF THE $12 HOG. As corn passed wheat, it became too dear to feed hogs, whose diet was thereupon switched to wheat, which is a better meat-builder, anyway...
...practically the same thing as 'running fits' in dogs and caused in the same way. . . . Then it was the sunlight of understanding flooded my soul, and I knew exactly what caused Bilbo's tantrums. I remembered, as you remember, that he was living on a diet of sardines and crackers and cheese until we elected him to the Senate with a salary of $10,000 a year and immediately he took up his abode in a fine hotel in Washington and he got to eating caviar, cav-eh-ah. It ain't a thing...
...began conventionally enough with the mother telling the court that the father was no fit parent because he had "shaken the baby so hard that her teeth rattled." To that the father replied that on those occasions when the mother cared for the child it was not fed the diet which he, as a physician, had recommended. Then the case passed from the nursery to the boudoir as each of the disputants began telling not the judge but the Press how oversexed the other...