Word: health
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Edwin Bidwell Wilson '99 of the Harvard School of Public Health has been reelected president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, it has just been announced. Professor Arthur Edwin Kennelly Hon. '06, of the Engineering School, Professor George Howard Parker '87, director of the Zoological Laboratory, and Professor George Lyman Kittredge '82, Gurney Professor of English Literature at the University, were elected vice-presidents...
...Henry Ford beamed with health & optimism, last week, as they landed at Manhattan, returning from England, where they recently took tea with Britain's King & Queen (TIME, April 23). Though Motor Man Ford wore a quiet blue suit when he landed, his exuberance was betrayed by a cravat of lavender and mottled green. Cried he: "I'm cocksure about the future of American business. . . . The Presidential election has nothing to do with it! ... Business will keep on being good through the summer and fall. . . . Yes, sir, I am cocksure about...
...work of the Rockefeller Foundation is concerned chiefly with public health. Last year, relief centers were established in the Mississippi flood area; Brazil was aided in a fight against yellow fever; hookworm was brought under control in 19 countries; the Peking Union Medical College was supported; $2,000,000 was given toward a new medical centre for the University of London; and the globe was dotted with Rockefeller health workers...
Last week this slender, pale and weak young prince was convalescing by almost imperceptible stages, at Madrid, from an operation upon his mouth which would have been negligible in a person of normal health. A pretense is kept up that the Prince of the Asturias is a "gentleman farmer" much interested in raising crops and breeding hogs; but most of his prolonged sojourns upon his estates are passed in pallid relaxation. Moreover, an inflammation of His Royal Highness' joints has set in of late...
...editing could delete the copybook banalities: moderate exercise (tennis) spells health, health spells good complexion; nor improve the laborious heaping up of sentences that recall Freshman compositions in which every preposition helped to attain the required thousand words. In this case the required 214 pages contain the usual directions for shifting the weight from the right to the left foot; a lucid diagram of the centre theory (advising for net play a deep ball centre, which opens up less of the player's court to the opponent's return); repeated admonitions to practice...