Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...being excessively stuffy. The abysmal depths are opening even wider. Last week the tabloid Daily Sketch's, circulation topped the 1,000,000 mark, a sensational rise of nearly 400,000 readers in little more than two years, based wholly on the paper's new diet of cheesecake, sex, crime and alarm-ringing political coverage. Last week Fleet Streeters also got the announcement of a new daily, the Sun. Said the Sun's prospectus, leaving no doubt as to what kind of daily it intends to be: "It will be lighthearted . . . We are not, unlike some publishers...
...owns 30 movie theaters. There are new power plants, new dams, new roads, new schools. The number of schoolrooms has increased tenfold since war's end; the death rate is down to less than 40% of prewar. Many Okinawans who once existed exclusively on a sweet-potato diet have climbed a rung on the Oriental living scale and eat rice. "Before the war, only section chiefs and above in the government wore shoes," says one Okinawan. "Now everybody has a pair." The Colonial Business. Without anyone really intending it that way, the U.S. has been thrust into the colonial...
Modern medicine now goes to the mind of the matter. A cirrhotic liver may fail to filter some nitrogen compounds which the body makes in the process of digesting protein foods such as meat. These compounds so affect the nervous system that a diet rich in protein will play hob with the intellectual power of such a patient...
Hauled off to jail, Pagala Baba demanded meat instead of the customary vegetarian prison diet. Said he: "I am indifferent to punishment by men because God's justice is supreme." Last week, given a "lenient" sentence of two years "because of his age," he was no longer so indifferent to man's justice. A number of wealthy Cuttack admirers, trustees of the Kaliaboda math, had persuaded him to appeal the sentence. He gave in, on the ground that the "high court is a little nearer God's justice than the lower court." But the people of Cuttack...
...trustees to put aside $5,000 a year to buy livestock, and then sell it to the boys at cost. Then he and his students began experimenting with feed, found that the blemished cull potatoes discarded by farmers could provide, when dried, 90% of a fat steer's diet. So a whole new industry grew up in Kern County. Instead of paying $65 a ton for corn and $42 for barley, local farmers now had a good substitute for only...