Word: diets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ballotting for the Hessian Diet on Nov. 15 the National Socialists more than doubled the popular vote which they cast at the Reichstag election of September, 1930, the returns indicating about 290,000 now, as compared with 138,000 fifteen months ago. This gives them thirty of the total of seventy-two seats in the new Hessian Diet, as compared with the one seat which they secured in the last local election of 1927. The Communists also made considerable gains at the expense of the Social Democrats. The voting was once more symtomatic of the political drift throughout Germany...
...Bovril poster, which shows a shaggy and slightly dilapidated steer staring at a bottle of Bovril with a wild surmise that is elucidated in the caption: "Alas! My poor brother." Bovril sales took a big jump during the influenza epidemic of 1918 when it became standard British hospital diet. Bovril profits - some $1,500,000 a year -have been built in part upon the assurance, heartily shared by its noble directors, that the sense of fun never sets on the British Empire. Too conservative to desert the archaic method of advertising by quips and slogans, Bovril cajolements for the past...
...Tokyo the Japanese Diet met briefly, passed a resolution 'in appreciation of the Army's efforts in Manchuria,' adjourned over the holidays...
...liberal education that does not sink to the fantastic absurdities of salesmanship and, to borrow from Flexner, ad hoc courses. Yale standards are such that the feels content if she can turn out thoroughly sound and worthwhile members of American society. She must provide for men whose intellectual diet has been a preaching of conformity, hard, clean playing on athletic fields, and good citizenship, from earliest boarding-school days on. Such is the conception of "leader" manufacture in America...
...delivery is determined by factors quite distinct from this consideration, and in most instances, entirely beyond our control. Without going into an elaborate discussion of the inheritance of parental traits, we may very well turn to the experience of animal breeders, for example, those who raise mules. The diet of the equine mother differs considerably in various parts of the country, but the custom of breeding jacks to mares rather than stallions to jennets is universal, the stallion's colt is always too large for the jennet to bring into the world alive...