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Word: health (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...large number of people feel . . . that those who have the money to pay for such [alcoholic] beverages and have them analyzed can drink without risk of health, while those who cannot do so must either do without them or take great risks of being poisoned. It is for this reason that the great mass of our workmen and poor people feel that Prohibition does not prohibit, but is a scheme to deny them something. . . . Is it any wonder they should rebel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: A. A. P. A. | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

...little incident came to the attention of famed Arthur Brisbane who found a lesson in it for us all: "The lady . . . did a useful thing by impressing the health value of singing. Nothing develops the lungs as singing does. Sing at your work and avoid consumption. . . ." It seemed to most observers probable that Mme. Reggio had made her climb more for purposes of publicity than to "impress the health value," of her profession. Yet it was pleasant to reflect that Mme. Reggio had spent effort and years in developing her lungs so that she might sing the better; and that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Climber | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

...Passed a House resolution designating May 1 as annual Child Health...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The Senate Week May 28, 1928 | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

Elected. Edwin Bidwell Wilson of the Harvard School of Public Health, to be president again of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 28, 1928 | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

...Story. There was no story, and that was Adrienne's trouble. Suppressed by a middle-class father concerned only that the arid monotony of his existence, be undisturbed, guarded by her sickly sister, the village spinster who envied youth and health and beauty, Adrienne was starved for drama. She could but set the stage-parlor furniture to dust in the morning, geraniums to cut by the garden gate-and wait in vain for the hero. From an upper window she watched for him, a middle-aged neighbor. The sharp ledge cut into her arms, the heavy scent of summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Provincial Aridity | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

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