Word: frailer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With Gandhi went Mme. Sarojini Naidu, poetess, and Madeline Slade, the British admiral's daughter who has been Gandhi's devoted follower for 17 years. Mme. Gandhi, older (73), tinier (barely four feet tall) and far frailer than her scrawny spouse who is still tough as nails despite the fiction that he is sickly, was allowed to remain in the Birla home. But that evening, she, too, was arrested when she tried to make a speech before 30,000 persons in a big Bombay park. The meeting was broken up, but not before other speakers read the last...
...Vitamin Days. Many a thoughtful man wonders how his ancestors got along without knowing about vitamins. Answer: They did not get along very well. Professor Cummings points out that although they ate huge quantities of pork, corn and a sprinkling of game, they were, on the average, smaller and frailer than the average U. S. citizen today. The death rate among the young was very high. Those who survived "benefited from a vigorous life with plenty of sunshine and fresh air." Also to their benefit, they ate nutritious, unrefined sugars and molasses, bread made from vitamin-rich whole meal...