Word: health
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These things Dr. Kellogg tells you in his quiet, quick voice. His little white goatee flicks his sincerity at you; so too his gentle eyes back of his darkly rimmed spectacles. He likes, too, to recall how he was a member of the Michigan State Board of Health under four governors; that he is the oldest living member of the American Public Health Association; that he likes to do hard things for mental exercise...
...pleasanter to the eye. As to delights beyond the eye and finger-tips, the new Advocate seems to carry behind it a surer authority and a genuine masculinity. Abandoning abstraction, the creation of several new departments, the brightening up of the old, and a kind of general tone of health and vigor begins to call the languid clubman and the lily-fingered litterateur from their opposite poles and give them a common interest in an important undergraduate occurrence...
Plebiscitary Commission,* despatched a superficially colorless cable about his health...
...vain the State Department and the Spokesman of the White House proclaimed that so far as they knew General Pershing would return to Tacna-Arica when he regained his health, and that the President would certainly not cease to mediate between Chile and Peru. The rumor persisted that General Pershing was not ill, and was backed up by news cables from Arica which described him as enjoying perfectly good health...
...Fitter Families." At midwestern state fairs, competitions are being held with blue ribbons and silver cups as prizes, for families who submit themselves to examination by physicians, geneticists, psychiatrists, dentists, oculists, for ratings in family health, history and heredity. Pedigrees are also worked out noncompetitively, "fitter families" being the slogan of the movement, as explained by Dr. Florence Brown Sherbon, University of Kansas, before the Association...