Word: diets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have eaten the hearts, livers and testicles of ferocious beasts and valorous enemies. Believers in sympathetic magic, they sought thus to acquire strength and bravery. Scientific minds saw no sense to this until about 75 years ago Charles Edouard Brown-Séquard (1817-94) concluded that such a diet somehow made men of weaklings. He sought the reason and found a testicular secretion which in infinitesimal amounts did what the whole gland could do. That potent quintessence came to be called a hormone. Other glands in the body were soon found to produce secretions of similar potency. Thus born...
...Proposals for Strengthening It. Conceivable in no country save Japan, it was simply an attack on Japan's present form of Government, timed after eight lulling months of Army quietude to coincide with the current preparation of the 1935-36 budget, which will be passed at the Diet's winter session...
Thus it is twice as risky to be an unskilled member of a pick-&-shovel gang as it is to be a farmer or a lawyer. Cause: partly, the accidents incident to unskilled labor, but principally the manner of life which the occupation entails (diet, housing, medical care, contact with infected persons...
...Laddie' Brewer who liked to go to bed At eight o'clock and as mess-officer Was hailed until a diet of canned crab Too oft repeated change of sentiment Provoked, and so another was elected...
...study of the effects of inorganic deficiencies and especially the substitution of various elements for calcium in the diet...