Word: growing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vitamin A, of which he was one of the discoverers, received his specific denunciation. It does help the body of children to grow. It does help prevent eye diseases. But, said Dr. McCollum, Vitamin A does not directly prevent colds as many manufacturers of candies and drugs claim. The only effect Vitamin A has on colds is to increase secretions from mucous membranes of nose and throat. Those secretions kill invading germs, may prevent a cold, if germs actually cause colds. His advice was not to drink cod-liver oil, in which Vitamin A is usually sold, as a cold...
...Walshes let no grass grow under their feet. They left poverty flat, went off to Washington, D.C. to spend money, have a good time and become real ladies & gentlemen. That was easy. Father built an $835,000 house on Massachusetts Avenue, entertained lavishly, tipped right & left. When they went abroad King Leopold I of Belgium was his pal, tried, unsuccessfully, to interest Father in a little proposition in the Congo. Writes Evalyn: "It makes me happy to remember now that, after years and years of hard knocks and worry, my daddy was so quickly recognized, when he had riches...
...become the biggest man in the world, but he could not lift even his small brother (see cut). He stands 8 ft. 3¾ in., weighs 390 Ib., wears size 39 shoes ($86 a pair). During the past year he gained 2 in. in height, continues to grow, may not reach his full growth until...
Until this week only doctors and lawyers could legitimately buy Dr. Henry Havelock Ellis' compendious topographical survey of the vast, tangled jungles of sex activities which flourish in human bodies, souls and minds. When in 1897 this inquisitive Englishman published Sexual Inversion, from which was to grow his mighty Studies in the Psychology of Sex, London police promptly arrested the bookseller and confiscated all available copies of this volume. Year later Frank A. Davis of Philadelphia, as a personal favor to Dr. Ellis, began printing his Studies, which eventually ran to seven volumes and retailed...
...sophomoric levels. In his laudable attempts to English the dead Latin facts, Author Pratt sometimes makes his English livelier than lucid: "He was disposed to hold grievance that the Senate had not protected him to point and edge, and a snarling shuttlecock of 'Your fault' began to grow up, which was interrupted by a message that plunged them all into the well of misery together. . . . The old man hardly seemed to care, numb to an aching misery, not so much that his ideals had died, but warped into forms unrecognizable to himself, and in the procedure twisted askew...