Word: health
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fall accepted the prison sentence, Justice Hitz said he would, because of Fall's broken health, have suspended it indefinitely. But Fall accepted the full sentence to complete his case for appeal which he will carry first to the District of Columbia Court of Appeals and then on to the same U. S. Supreme Court which in 1926 branded him "a faithless public officer'' on the same evidence when in a civil suit it voided the Doheny-Fall lease for the Elk Hills naval oil reserve...
...nutritionist declared last week, without carping at the Nobel award to Professors Hopkins and Eijkman, that, if a future Nobel Prize for vitamin research is made, it should go to Professor Elmer Verner McCollum, 50, head of the department of chemical hygiene at Johns Hopkins school of hygiene & public health. He too was an early revealer of the vitaminic essentials for diet...
...cafes he met the Polish poet Zborowski who saw that he was dying. Zborowski tried to sell some of Modigliani's canvases. But no one wanted them, so he sold a trunk full of his own clothes and took the painter to Provence for his health. He improved slightly but once back in Paris he drank again, became so undermined that when an unusual cold wave struck in December 1920 he died of influenza with the words "Cara, cara, Italia!'' (Dear, dear Italy) on his lips. A few days later his mistress threw herself from a window...
...have had an opinion on the matter but it was an opinion so contrary to widely-advertised ones that we hesitated to utter it. Investigation shows us that others believe as we do, namely, that the cough cannot always be controlled. Yet you will find dogmatic persons in robust health who insist it can be controlled. That assertion we deny with all the emphasis of ten-point ink. Some coughs are unnecessary. Others are unavoidable...
...Alfred Worcester '78 will talk to the first year men on the opportunities which the Department of Health of the University affords to students in the Law School...