Word: diets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...consensus: Hexameron was a six-layer cake that would never do for a steady diet, but it was fun to take once in a while...
...Last week they found an unexpected windfall in the good grey New York Times. They clipped out a series of dispatches on life in Russia by Times Moscow Correspondent Harrison Salisbury and reproduced parts of them. Crowed the Worker: "The articles [were] a refreshing, vivid contrast to the daily diet of highly imaginative bunk which the Times and its journalistic cohorts generally feed their readers" and "completely undermined" the "official line" of the U.S. that it is arming only against aggression by Russia...
...other fields of learning. It is a system which he has been using since he assumed direction of the course in 1930. At that time he liberalized the subject matter for English A themes to include topics with which students would have outside acquaintances rather than the pre-1939 diet of literary compositions. "Then we added the practice of assigning a long research paper each term to teach freshmen the rudiments of thesis writing," Morrison explains...
...Rally, Addams shows his full cast of professionally baleful bad characters: the gaunt, string-haired young witch who looks somewhat like a vampire on a vegetable diet; her oily-swarthy spouse who is intended by Addams, a loyal Democrat, to bear a distant resemblance to Governor Dewey; their bloated little boy, who resembles something preserved in alcohol, and a handful of useful extras, including a butler edition of Boris Karloff...
...Milhorat and other researchers have found that in experiments with rabbits the disease may be brought on by withholding vitamin E from the diet, and shut off by giving the vitamin. But humans, for some unknown reason, do not react so simply: they may have plenty of vitamin E in their diets, while their muscles, unable to use it, wither away...