Word: eating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Even so he is but a pygmy beside the gigantic sumos (wrestlers) of Japan, men who weigh up to 400 pounds, mountains of fat and muscle who boast that they eat ten times the daily ration of the ordinary Japanese. Anciently sumo (literally "horn power") was a contest of strength between trained bulls. Today 1,200 professional wrestlers, divided into teams, "The East" and "The West," perform at two great championship bouts of ten days' length twice yearly. Each tries to force or throw his individual opponent out of a ring; each has practiced to perfection the "twelve throws...
Newsgatherers found Master Farjeon quite a normal, small boy, however. He could play with other children; he would eat his meals. He had studied music for two years only. His mother was an actress (Claribel Fontaine), his father an actor (Herbert Farjeon) and his great-great-uncle was actor Joseph Jefferson. That might explain without undue "forcing" some of his immature thirst for Brahms, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky "and specially Mozart." Besides the "Hiawatha" setting he had written only an Indian war dance, a "Suite of Characteristics" and a "Rhapsody in Red." The latter, he said, was "after the idea...
...diets. But that would be inconvenient. Then a keen mind in the Ministry of Health fixed attention on the Roman Catholic monasteries in England. The monks living in them follow regimens as regular, definite and controlled as could ever be kept up for laboratory specimens. The Cistercians never eat meat or fish; the Carthusians eat no meat, nor do they smoke or talk; the Benedictines eat meat sparingly, three days a week for half the year. On the other hand the Carmelites and Dominicans feed themselves as do lay Roman Catholics. These, therefore, were the "controls" for observations...
TIME entertains and educates me as I wait for my order and as I eat. ELEANOR J. RIDGWAY...
...spite of mules and in spite of poor housing conditions, the doughboy must eat. "No soldier can fight unless he is properly fed on beef and beer," said the lewd but shrewd General John Churchill, First Duke of Marlborough. As everyone knows, the U. S. Army gets no beer from the Government. As for the beef-very little of that can be bought with a daily per capita food appropriation of 35c. (The Navy is allowed...