Word: eat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...agriculture, Mr. Christensen says that root crops do well because of the long days, but shipping costs preclude development of an outside market; and in his day, not even Alaskans could be persuaded to eat the soggy Alaskan potato. What with the hardships of clearing the land, the short summer season, the extremely cold winters, the plague of mosquitoes and other insects, Mr. Christensen considers the colonists' prospects so glum that the Government will be obliged to support them and eventually return them to the States...
...opening of the baseball season the President had to take great pains not to let a cameraman catch him popping peanuts into his mouth, was caught nonetheless and for several days the White House was besieged with letters saying that it was not dignified for the President to eat peanuts...
...much money, paid in cash, would you eat a quarter of a pound of cooked human flesh, supposing that the fact . . . will appear next day on the front page of all the New York papers...
...Afterbirths. Practically all animals, including some primitive women, eat their own afterbirths. The practice apparently is good for the mother and probably, through her milk, for the child. Dr. Charles Fremont McKhann Jr. of Boston gave such placentophagy a new twist and a sound scientific basis by extracting substances from placentas, with which he inoculates children against measles. He also expects to extract sub stance to immunize against scarlet fever, diphtheria, infantile paralysis...
...rheumatoid arthritis (swelling and pain in the joints, particularly in the knees, elbows, wrists). That streptococci most probably cause rheumatic fever has long been suspected. Dr. Charles William Wainwright of Baltimore offered evidence that the streptococcus also is responsible for rheumatism in the joints. In any case children who eat spinach diligently will probably escape the fever and heart disease, grown-ups who do likewise will probably escape the rheumatism. This seems so whether 1) Vitamin C enables the body to kill streptococci after they get into the system, or 2) the presence of Vitamin C prevents streptococci from taking...