Word: healthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...James H. King, Canada's Minister of Health, last week pondered a compound problem of propriety, tolerance and human rights. The Provincial authorities of British Columbia had laid the problem be- fore him: they proposed that Canada exile or isolate several thousand of Canada's inhabitants upon lonely D'Arcy Island, off the southernmost tip of Vancouver Island...
Another of those random thoughts was this brave offer: "The Chemical Foundation stands ready to bear all the expenses of any commission "the President may care to appoint to inquire into the vast possibilities of chemistry as an agent of peace, outlawing war by its terrors, advancing health and prosperity by its humane discoveries...
...Columbia's muliebral Barnard College last fortnight issued the annual report of famed Dean Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve. In part, she observed that it is "practically impossible for all except a very few unusual young women to attempt working their way for four years without serious injury to their health or academic standing or both. ... I have in mind an able and interesting girl who hitchhiked across country from the Pacific Coast a few years ago and started to work her way through Barnard. In spite of our efforts to aid her the strain had produced, by the time...
...helped the Navy tie Michigan last year. Discarding the huddle system, Columbia rehearsed two crack, barking quarterbacks, Liflander and Joyce. Princeton's fleet Eddie Wittmer turned up, sole survivor of a first-string backfield otherwise dispersed by graduation. At Stanford, giant Center Walter Heinecke reported, despite poor health which may keep him on the bench. Charlie ("Foots") Clements, Alabama tackle, seemed to be wearing bigger shoes than ever. Husky after a summer job as highway policeman, Fullback Harold Rebholz returned to Wisconsin. Harvard welcomed two of its less gentle sons, Quarterback Putnam and Fullback Harper...
Marshal Joseph Jacques Cesare Joffre left Paris for Evian-les-Baines, health resort. To anxious friends he explained he was going not for himself but because his wife was taking a cure for rheumatism...