Word: diets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...martial of the ten Naval officers who joined in plotting insurrection and committed the actual murder of Premier Inukai worked up last week to a fine pitch of Japanese patriotic frenzy. Arguing that the confessed culprits must go free, Senior Defense Counsel Ichiro Kiyose, a Member of the Imperial Diet, screeched in his final appeal...
...settlements, aids a leper colony, maintains a research bureau, heads a great organization of consumers', producers' and credit cooperatives. Many a Japanese, including himself, wears a "Kagawa suit" which costs $3 (winter model) or $1.35 (summer). Kagawa founded the Farmer-Peasant Party, has sat in the Japanese Diet as its only outspoken radical. The Government used to put him in jail for helping strikers and stirring up the populace. He would smile amiably, preach to anyone who listened, continue writing books. Like the Mahatma Gandhi, Kagawa keeps a day of silence every week. He too has foreign followers...
...Chinese cricket-lover lives in a bedlam. Several rooms of his house are stacked high with jars of crickets. Exhaustive manuals tell him what to feed each species at each meal (sick crickets get a special diet of red waterbugs...
...throwing something new into the market. Meanwhile old concerns with slowly depreciating equipment to amortize would have opportunity to revive, or to die gently instead of abruptly. But, deplored Sir Josiah, his idea of a referee is tenable only if all classes become socially and economically minded. "An Ideal Diet cannot yet be defined," observed Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins speaking as a professional biochemist, because "factors still unknown contribute to normal nutrition." Garbaged Farm Lands. To provide more arable land for England, Francis Maurice Gustavus Du-Plat-Taylor, dock and reclamation engineer, urged that London's house refuse...
...Maguire family is keeping a detailed, secret record of Patricia's diet, medicines, treatment, with the thought that they may some day write a book about her. Their house has been deluged with the usual flood of letters (at one time 50 per mail), advice and offers of help from all sorts of people including a Hindu mystic who offered to cure her for ?150 as a first installment. Two people wanted to exhibit Patricia at the Century of Progress. One wanted to build a miniature hospital in the Hall of Science, offered $50 a week plus...