Word: health
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thousands of Japanese, increasingly alarmed by the Emperor's recently aggravated ill health, began last week to "purify" themselves, on the theory that just as the virtue of the Tenno (emperor) is supposed to effect the well-being of his subjects, so an increase in their purity should benefit the Emperor...
Admitted that scholasticism is inevitably associated with a gloomy atmosphere, still there is no adequate reason why students should be deprived of sufficient oxygen to maintain their health and comfort. To be cruclly specific--the air in certain parts of Widener Library, notably the upper and lower reading rooms, is a thing of wonder: it gives rise to thoughts concerning medieval dungeons, and suspicions to the effect that ventilating systems sometimes do everything but ventilate. With all the clever conceits of modern architecture one might reasonably suppose that a pure environment could be provided for those whose...
...must be admitted, the cafeterias remain. Their apparent variety of food, ingeniously set forth on placards, is less appealing and more monotonous after more familiar acquaintance, and in many cafeterias resolves itself into the pork-chop-and-French-friend-potatoes type of malnutrition. Irregular hours have proved injurious to health. And prices have gone up:one cafeteria, for instance, has increased the price of eggs by furnishing guaranteed "new-laid" eggs only on payment of 35 cents, instead of the quarter previously charged for any eggs, whether fresh or primeval; another has omitted bread, butter, and drinks from its "special...
...recent statement made by Dr. M. P. Revenal of the University of Missouri revealed the new statistics prepared by life insurance companies and public health organizations on the birth rate among American college graduates. His figures amazed a meeting of state educators...
...middle west, New England and the south ought to be heartened by this glowing description of national health. Farmers may have had doubts concerning their ability to avoid bankruptcy, bankers may have hastily condemned the Federal Reserve System, or anything which might be responsible for the present financial disasters, and manufacturers may have looked askance at trade: but now everything is settled the doctor has declared the patient to be in the best of form and therefore there can be no possible excuse for lamentations. But Mr. Hoover should travel west, north and south. He might see more than...