Word: diets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blunt speech before a special session of the imperial Diet--the Teikoku Jikai--the Foreign Minister asserted that Japan proposes abolition of the ratio principle of naval strength between herself, Britain, and the United States and "Establishment of a common upper limit for the powers concerned...
Tokyo, Wednesday, Nov. 28--Premier Kiesuke Okada's military-controlled government was threatened with overthrow today with the convening of a special session of the Imperial Diet to consider serious financial and political issues endangering the life of his cabinet...
...indeed, who care to dispute Dr. Wilson's suggestion that it is high time for those who dispense knowledge in the public school system to begin dealing in the facts of life. It is a point needing little re-emphasis that the semi-literacy which is weaned on the diet dished out by earnest graduates of the neighboring normal school provides a noble share of the tragic humor in any democracy. It enthusiastically fosters huey longs and pink toothbrush, joe penners and streamlined bathtubs, athletes foot and esquire. It glories in the Sir Galahad account of the Spanish-American...
...Eliot, Ezra Pound and Company. Now this is a perfectly legitimate undertaking, if anyone wants to read a magazine published along such lines. But Mr. Wade is hardly in a position to get annoyed when some of the rest of us grow a little restless on his own favorite diet. He has chosen to edit one kind of magazine; we have chosen to edit another. And if he finds some of his former contributors on our editorial board is he obliged, after all, to write a letter to the CRIMSON about...
...diabetes in 1921 gave Dr. Minot the clue to liver as the stuff which would best regenerate the marrow's red-cell powers. Before Drs. Frederick Grant Banting and Charles Herbert Best of the University of Toronto discovered insulin (1921), Dr. Minot kept himself alive by watching his diet. Dieting made him a food faddist. Faddism made him ask his pernicious anemia patients what they ate. Thus he discovered that most never touched meat or green vegetables. From Johns Hopkins' Dr. Elmer Verner McCollum, Dr. Minot learned that liver was rich in proteins and vitamins which stimulate...