Word: diets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Recent events set Dave Beck thinking. The results: 1) He suggested to the Washington State Federation of Labor that A. F. of L. and C. I. O. might do well to make peace, the better to fight their common enemies. 2) He disclosed that by diet and exercise he has taken off 44 Ib. in three months, has got down to a fit 170, the better to fight his enemies. Encased in heavy pants, rubber vest, rubber coat, two sweaters, he sweats his way around the University of Washington track every morning at 6 o'clock , flexes the Beck...
...venturer Clyde Elliott (Bring 'Em Back Alive) toted his cameras to Northern Malaya. Paramount sheared away most of what he brought back, brushed up a Booloo of its own, a crude hocus-pocus about a white tiger, worshiped by Sakai tribesmen and kept in good fur on a diet of maidens...
...these are minor improvements that concentrators suggested in the Confidential Guide meeting. If the University continues to ignore the needs of Biochemistry, it will surely starve a most promising infant among the sciences. Left on the doorstep by the previous administration, it has since lived on a diet of air and water; yet if it is to be preserved and developed, it demands a normal diet...
...problems which he isolates and presents are problems which must sooner or later be faced--the sooner the better. There is the problem of diet, of the minimum amount of food necessary to keep a family alive: too many go without this amount. There is the housing problem, and three is the inevitable problem of relief. Using anecdote, case histories, statistics, Mr. Hicks puts forward the case for the under-privileged with vivid realism. It is a superficial survey, but presented with irony and understatement it is a powerful stimulant to thought...
Into New Orleans last week, on an "unofficial" mission of great importance, bowed goggling little Kaju Nakamura, U. S.-educated professional Japanese gladhander, onetime member of the Japanese Imperial Diet. His mission: to explain Japan and the Japanese to the U. S. public. Smiling with bland and magnificent unction, the honorable gentleman immediately proceeded to clarify Japan's attitude on a matter that still rankles mightily in U. S. memories...