Word: healthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mumford is not one to forget that Whitman apostrophized a locomotive, that Emerson thought a swift transatlantic liner could be as beautiful as a star, that Thoreau enjoyed wind singing on telegraph wires. But machines were only instruments, not manna or masters to these men. So he finds little health in the so-called Chicago realists of today. He sees their renowned leader, Theodore Dreiser, swallowing the drab scene "with a vast hippopotamus yawn"; engulfing, nothing more: no digestion or creation. Philosopher John Dewey he finds serviceable but juiceless, with a mode of expression "as depressing as a subway ride...
...Chamberlain brothers. (Austen, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and Neville, Minister of Health. They are sons of the late Rt. Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, right hand man to potent Mr. Gladstone...
...office has been open to all who voluntarily sought his aid and to those whose conduct or failure in studies caused their deans to suspect such conduct or failure to be due to physical or mental ill health. Dr. Worcester feels that in most cases a thorough study of the students' physical and mental condition is necessary...
...Medical Assistant in Hygiene. Dr. Means stated that most of the Freshmen physical examinations which obliged further study were the results of heart trouble and that a special effort was made in such cases to determine the amount of activity, physical exercise in particular, which would lead to general health and yet avoid heart strain...
...comes out of Oklahoma concerning the Governor's matronly secretary with whom he is said to plumb spiritualism, occultism, Rosicrusianism. The latest report is that she calls the Democratic State Chairman her errand boy. Meanwhile her husband, Dr. Hammonds, churchgoer from Okmulgee, enjoys pay as State Commissioner of Health...