Word: health
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mayor has found it equally difficult to identify himself exclusively with the education of minors, and the protection of women's health...
...best of health at 76, Mr. Burbank has no idea of remitting his labors. Most men at 76 consider it an honor to be termed "spry." Mr. Burbank is better than spry-he is agile, can stand on his head. This month will round out his 50th year at Santa Rosa, where, aided by the Carnegie Foundation, the Burbank Society and a Federal land grant, he has directed the evolution of plant life so patiently and ingeniously as to produce, among other useful oddities, the spineless cactus, once a nuisance, now a fodder; fat, perennial rhubarb out of a skinny...
...Tigert a program for Nov. 15-22, the title of which remained as before but was cleared of anti-social stigma by the super-slogan: "America First in Freedom and Democracy." The days were rechristened in the names of Peaceful Progress, American Institutions, Political, Liberty, Social Justice, Public Health, and Moral Development. Elaborate sub-slogans enlivened extensive programs for each Day. It was to be inferred that the Federation of Teachers stood ready to supply speakers and to place its name beside that of the Bureau of Education in bringing the Week to pass...
...while he lunched and began passionately to repel the slander. Lawson listened with courtesy but without concentration to the man's stammered protestations. At their conclusion he directed the waiter to bring to the table a bottle of Imperial Toquay, and having filled two glasses, said; "Your health, my friend." Eugene Field, that celebrated wag with the face of a tortured martyr, would shamble into Lawson's office, bent on a loan of lunch money. Then would follow mumbled circumlocutions, explanations, an appeal, a roar of laughter from Lawson. Twisting his Savonarola visage, Field would scuttle from the office. . . "Sure...
...gift of organized U. S. Chemistry) in 1920 "for such valuable contributions to Chemistry (especially sugar refining gas manufacture, petroleum refining, photography, dyeing), that he has placed the whole world in his debt," holder of certain honorary degrees never previously conferred on anyone but Edward VII, President of the Health Department of New York City under Mayors Havemeyer and Ely, originator of free vaccination, educator, professor, distinguished and beloved lecturer; from nephritis, at Hartford, Conn...