Word: digester
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dogman Terhune had published in the August issue of Reader's Digest a brief essay entitled "Beware of the Dog" which consisted mainly of advice on how to avoid being bitten. A dog which comes up with high head and loud barks, observed Mr. Terhune, does not intend to bite. If the animal approaches with head down and low growls, it probably means to bite but will frequently be too puzzled to do so if the person stands with feet together and hands on chest. That dogs are inclined to attack people who are afraid of them Author Terhune...
Next morning, on rereading Brown's article, Editor Page decided "it was too good to be true." He telephoned the Forum, which reported that both The Literary Digest and the Philadelphia Public Ledger had recommended Brown's work. As a final check Editor Page insisted on comparing his article with the Forum's. They were almost identical...
...Sudden Death (Paramount) takes its title from the article by Joseph Chamberlin Furnas on the evils of fast motoring which appeared in The Reader's Digest and has since, in a reprint by Simon & Schuster (after screen re-enactment in The March of Time for last October), reached a circulation of three million copies. It does not venture to translate into pictures much of the lusty and horrifying blood-reek of the article, but it does present, within conventional limits, an energetic little sermon on good highway manners. Lieutenant Knox (Randolph Scott), head of a police traffic department, meets...
...mixture three parts milk, one part water; a "medial" baby two parts milk, one part water. Reason, according to Manhattan's Dr. Isaac Newton Kugelmass: normal cow's milk forms tough curds in baby stomachs, diluted milk forms soft curds. Lanky babies secrete enough gastric juices to digest tough curds with no trouble. Other body types require soft curds for comfort. All types "require 10% of mixed sugars added, with supplements of vitamins D and C. On the other hand all types tolerate breast milk." Other Kugelmass advice: for allergic newborn babies, goat's, evaporated or vegetable...
...last week's Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr. Harry Blotner, young Boston stomach specialist, published the first proof that a heavy drinker does not digest his food. Anyone can repeat in his kitchen or parlor the experiment by which Dr. Blotner arrived at his conclusion...