Word: health
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meeting was marked by the passage of the following resolution: "Whereas, reducing body weight has become a national mania, and "Whereas, many women and girls have injured their health by reducing nostrums and wrong and injurious methods of dieting, and by bringing themselves below their normal healthy weight, while others are dangerously overweight, and "Whereas, there are at present no adequate tables which tell women what they ought to weigh, therefore be it "Resolved, that we urge the women of America not to imperil their health and that of future generations by reducing methods other than those advocated by reliable...
...Habaña filth was the predominant motif, with yellow fever the counterpoint, U. S. health officials scoured the city clean, but yellow fever persisted epidemically. Dr. Walter Reed came with his staff from Washington to investigate. On the hunch of an old Cuban physician, he experimented with mosquitoes, heretofore unsuspected and felt fairly assured that they were the carriers of the dread malady. But he needed proof and he found it when, after months of experiments, a virulent mosquito bit and infected one of the doctors on his staff. Another intrepid physician submitted himself to experimentation, was infected, died...
...fitting themselves for the battle of life? And the boys in France, sleeping their last--would they be more pleased to have an aspiring finger pointing toward heaven in memory of their noble exploits, or to know that, inspired by those exploits, men were being strengthened in body and health and fitted for the work of establishing democracy on earth...
...Daugherty and others were called to take charge of the destinies of the nation, when onetime President Taft was called from his retirement to become Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, when a unique conference for the limitation of naval armaments assembled in Washington, when Woodrow Wilson, broken in health, retired from the old white mansion at 1601 Pennsylvania Ave. and went to live quietly in a house on S Street in the northwestern part of Washington?Vice President Dawes, taking in his hand an historic trowel, laid a great marble slab upon a steel casket containing masonic emblems...
...immediate result of last week's elections was to precipitate fresh agitation for the resignation of Ziwar as Premier and the installation of a Wafd Ministry. The Wafd's "grand old man," Saad Zaghlul Pasha, 66 (TIME, May 24), has, however, suffered marked ill health for some time and, despite his personal popularity, has failed thus far to rally Egyptians against the British with sufficient solidarity to force his return?as Premier...