Word: diets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Huxley also demonstrated that a fixed ratio exists between the members and body-weight of organisms of all sizes. A moose's antlers are in the same proportion to his body as a lobster's claws to his body. Vitamins. Sir Arnold Theiler reported cows from whose diet all vitamins were extracted, who thrived when supplied with phosphorus-a riddle. McDougall's Rats. At the end of the series of lectures and demonstrations by Dr. William McDougall of Harvard, the latter's admirer's were ejaculating that he had marked a turning point in Biology...
...Western Japan). Its blinds have remained closely drawn. Within Masataro Namba, head of that once proud family, has lived with his brothers and their families in a retirement scarcely less secluded than that of the grave. Until a year ago, their aged father, once a member of the Imperial Diet, shared this seclusion with them, then died of brief...
...endured, because in 1924 the youthful scapegrace of the family, Daisuke Namba, attempted to slay Prince Regent Hirohito of Japan (TIME, Jan. 7, 1924). Though Daisuke was found guilty at an extraordinary session of the Supreme Court and hanged, his father, broken with grief and shame, resigned from the Diet, and enjoined upon his family and himself a voluntary retirement until Death should harvest their lives...
...hopeful form of chorea. Children, especially girls, are susceptible to this disease, which is usually the expression of mental exhaustion, although it may be an end result of maldevelopment or of various contagious diseases?tonsillitis, measles, whooping cough. Cure is usually effected by quiet surroundings, rest in bed, full diet with plenty of fatty ingredients (milk, eggs), and above all the eliminating of the causative conditions. Relapses occur?the signs of trembling, twitching, dancing, muscular incoordination often reappear at the end of an exhausting school semester...
Sweden joggled politically to the Right last week as the bourgeois parties combined to overthrow the Socialist Cabinet of Premier Sandler when he attempted to jam through the Diet a measure granting unemployment doles even to men wilfully unemployed or on strike...