Word: digest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your superstitions on good food--here is a little more information. Certain foods, such as meats, vegetables, and fruit (milk is not always on the lunch meal), are much easier to digest, and, therefore, better for the athlete before exerting himself. The price for all this is less than $5 a person (4,000 students x $5 equals $20,000), and you must also remember that each boy can eat only one meal, either at the varsity club or in his house...
...number of U.S. households. ¶ Foreign news reporting, said Ed Stone of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, "is dull and sterile for the most part. We're not reporting on the people out where the people are . . . Hard news has come to mean hard to digest, hard to read and hard to get anybody to understand. I submit that foreign news is becoming local news, and unless we wake up to that fact, we're living in a dream world of the past...
Richard George, 69, quit his night-shift job as a billing-machine operator in the Reader's Digest circulation fulfillment department, went back to England and his full identity: Richard Lloyd George, second Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor, son of World War I Prime Minister David Lloyd George. When his father died in 1945, the new earl succeeded to the title but inherited nothing of the $300,000 estate, discomfitedly said: "If he was going to leave me the baby, he should have given me a perambulator to put it in." Home after ten years of self-exile...
Four out of five Protestant ministers in 17 Southern states are in favor of complying with the Supreme Court order to mix Negro and white children in public schools, according to the results of a poll published this week by the nondenominational monthly, Pulpit Digest...
...White House, have been hiding in a decaying family hotel under assumed names, indulging in weird hobbies, and barricading themselves against possible intruders. When at last someone manages to intrude, the girls turn out to be much less Republicans than know-nothings; they swear by the Literary Digest, are amazed that the banks have reopened and that there is a different Man in the White House. And they are soon as dissatisfied with modern-day Republicans as with New Dealers, though delighted-being broke-that brother Rensselaer's old habit of buying all sorts of screwball inventions has reaped...