Word: diets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American Museum of Natural History, who recently returned from an expedition to the Bahamas with the news that sharks are harmless. According to Mr. Heilner, he exposed himself to these much-maligned creatures repeatedly without their showing the least interest in him as a possible article of diet. It is to be feared, however, that even before such evidence the popular mind will cling to its delusion. Generations of South Sea Island movies in which a struggle between the hero and a shark is a prominent feature cannot but have their effect, and few frequenters of our bathing beaches will...
...Tanaka, last week, in an effort to weaken the Opposition parties by discrediting their extreme left wing, the Ronoto or Farmer-Laborites. The vital import of the Ronoto is that its two Deputies give the Opposition a theoretical plurality of two over the Government parties, in the newly elected Diet (TIME, March 5) which will shortly assemble. Numbers: Opposition, including Ronoto, 228; Government, 226; and Independents...
Romulus and Remus, who were expelled from Alba with disgust and alarm and who must later have had their eccentricities increased by the diet of acidulous milk with which an undiscriminating wolf supplied them...
...them. Other foodstuffs contain even more, it is true, but if the men were allowed all they wanted to eat, they would get enough of the essential vitamins in the beef products to satisfy. The real interest in such an experiment lies in the effect of a meat diet on the kidneys, on the blood pressure, on the heat production of the body, on the millions of bacteria that multiply in the intestines. A diet of lean meat only was tried but had to be given up because of digestive upsets. Was this be cause of too great an accumulation...
...news from Turkey goes far to explain the enigma. No doubt it was the abolition of the harems some years ago that enabled the Turkish male to discard his savage mien and fighting figure. With but one wife to engage his attentions, he can afford to neglect his diet and yield to the less violent diversions of the cinema...