Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...days sufficient to raise 15.8 tons one foot. After all trace of alcohol had disappeared from the system in the subject of this experiment, the action of the heart was found to be much feebler than usual. A fatty heart is one which is over laid with masses of fat as the external muscles may be in a man who is soft, or out of condition, or one in which the fibres of the muscle itself have been broken down and replaced by fat; this is the true fatty degeneration. "Alcohol is, if not the most powerful, at any rate...
...said to be any substance which when introduced into the body supplies the material which renews some structure or maintains some vital process." Alcohol cannot be considered as a food, except to the extent that it reduces waste of tissue. As a heat producer it is inferior to fat. Hunger and thirst are the demands of our bodies for food. Thirst is far less endurable than hunger; liquids enter into every part of the body...
...early Dutch Governors of the New Netherlands also used to appoint an occasional Thanksgiving day. Then the portly old citizens would kill their fat fowl and, with eating, drinking and smoking, cultivate within their ample bosoms, in their artless Dutch way, a love for all human kind...
...encourage them." In those primitive days the corporation treasury rolled in a maze of "pecks of wheat" and "mellow apples," paid by the people for the support of learning. Those were the halcyon days when the alma mater was herself sustained by milk from "ye udders of certain notable fat cattle...
...pamphlets and syllabi used in such large numbers in college. These pamphlets are necessary in a college course, and it is indeed an evil that they should be sold at prices so far above their real value, nay, so far above their real value, with a good fat profit added. Is this evil incurable, and must we always be imposed on thus? Is it not somehow in the power of editors and compilers of the pamphlets to regulate the market prices, if in no other way, at least by giving the pamphlets for publication to those who will gladly undersell...