Word: diets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reed wanted to be among the college cake-eaters but could not resist showing that he knew bread was a better diet. By persistence and ability he became an ''activity man," made the Lampoon and the Monthly, was active in many a club...
...Hall of 1800 was a large room which served as a dining hall and general meeting place, and another about the same size, used as a chapel. The dining hall's policy was good food and plenty of it. Pork, beef, and fowl formed the backbone of the College diet, with the students frequently eating all three meats at one meal...
...over the Alps. In Rome they attended military reviews, later closeted themselves for hours with Il Duce. What was said privately between Mussolini and his small allies is yet to be told, but it was pretty well indicated last week when bespectacled Chancellor Schuschnigg stood up in the Austrian Diet to demand a new law breaking once more the Treaty of Saint Germain, restoring compulsory military service to Austria...
...Fowler lists many guesses concerning the cause of chlorosis: menstrual difficulties, unrequited love, sudden fright, fallen stomachs, tight corsets, constipation, poor ventilation, overwork. Says he : "Probably the most logical view was . . . a long-continued iron deficiency in the diet." Despite those guesses "the reasons for the disappearance of chlorosis remain in darkness, and with its disappearance the explanation of its etiology becomes increasingly difficult...
...tutorial situation, as well, is discouraging. Understaffing and the pressure of lecture duties have led to a partial breakdown of the system. The result is, of course, that the Sociology concentrator is left with lecturing as the staple of his educational diet...