Word: health
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...majority of the undergraduates, beginning with the Sophomore class, eat irregularly in the cafeterias around the Square. Quite aside from the unwhole-someness of the food, the hurry that is almost always necessary in such places has a very deleterious effect upon health. The time spend in eating is not waited. Leisurely eating with one's companions is not only enjoyable but essential to one's well-being...
...spoke of the wave of self-criticism that is sweeping over the country. "This self-criticism, ranging from the diatribes of Mencken to the bickerings of mean backbiters, is an encouraging sign of advancement. Dissatisfaction with self is always an indication of development, and it is a sign of health for a nation to be able to stand the withering fire of criticism that both England and America are at present undergoing at the hands of their own people. Only the other day I heard one of your own professors, speaking of the University, say. "One of the worst features...
...Stockholm King Gustaf of Sweden gave a court dinner in honor of his niece* and Crown Prince Leopold, who had hastened thither last week. Raising high his glass, King Gustaf proposed and drank to the engagement a potent Swedish toast,† crying "Skal!" ("your health...
...justly celebrated reputation of Swedes as valiant drinkers is due in considerable measure to the Swedish custom of drinking "healths" or "toasts" incessantly at even completely informal meals. Swedish, and indeed Scandinavian etiquette demands that when three or more people are at table no one of them shall drink so much as a sip of beer, wine or spirits except in pledging a toast. At a formal Swedish dinner the host rises, catches the eye of a guest who also rises, cries "Your health!" and they drink. The host must repeat this ritual at least once with every guest...
...incessant smoker of cigarets, M. Fonck drinks no alcohol. To health, technical experience and adroitness he lays his war feats (126 enemy planes) and safety in civilian aviation. Last week. Pilot Callizo, altitude champion (TIME, Sept. 6), declared that while training for his heart-taxing ascents he cuts out tobacco as well as liquor, but includes "good red wine...