Word: feds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...studying the effects and values of foods. Their predecessors had believed that pure carbohydrates, proteins and fats alone were sufficient nutrition to supply an animal with its essential energy, to provide it with material for new growth, to replace its waste tissue. Researchers, including Dr. Hopkins, discovered that animals fed on "pure" diets lost weight and died. He found (1906) that a little milk in the diet kept the animals from dying and concluded that the milk must contain some unknown ingredient (vitamin...
...polished rice. He observed too that fowls suffered from an analogous polyneuritis and were feeding largely on polished rice. Putting many two's together he concluded that milling and polishing rice must remove some diet essential. He took some "silverskin" (rice pericarp) chaff, soaked it in water and fed the mash to sick fowls. They speedily recovered. Humans also recovered. Thus he showed that eating whole rice was a preventive against beriberi. As preliminary reward his colleagues made him professor of hygiene and legal medicine at the University of Utrecht...
When the alumni were well-fed and lightsome, they heard Yale's President, with Angellic jocosity, say: "One of our coaches, on the day that the Carnegie report was published [TIME, Nov. 4] told me that he would gladly exchange all Yale's purity for a good set of ends. . . .* We have long known that Yale teams were suffering from something and now this something appears to have been excessive purity. Already there is a movement afoot to add to Yale's motto, Lux et Veritas, the word Puritas. Later this year when you view the Yale...
...furs or feathers, eats no flesh. In 1925 she said: "Society is so organized as to make it seem necessary for thousands of shouting, cursing men to stand knee-deep in blood, dealing ferocious blows right and left upon millions of shrieking animals in order that we may be fed. . . . The steel trap has no place in anything even remotely describing itself as civilization and to abolish it we shall rely upon the modern woman...
...four weeks they had been fed by the British Government, a fact not gen erally known. Government rations included meat, vegetables, bread and milk daily for all. Then the task of feeding refugees was shouldered by the Palestine Zionist Executive, repository of the huge relief contributions from abroad. Despatches last week told that the P. Z. E. at once cut out meat, vegetables and milk from the rations given to adults. Each received daily, instead, half a tin of sardines, half a loaf of bread. Milk was issued only to babes, one cup per day. Repeatedly Jewish refugees...