Word: healthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Guest at the White House all week was Hubert Work M. D., being eased out of the Chairmanship of the Republican National Committee. His visit was interpreted as a parting token of the President's esteem. That his resignation, announced as "due to ill health," left him under no misapprehension, he showed by saying...
Senator Henrik Shipstead, Farmer-Laborite, onetime dentist, lives on a secluded island in northern Minnesota, striving to recover health lost in the service of his country. Last week his regular Republican colleague, sightless Senator Thomas David Schall, stopped at the Minnesota State Fair, urged his constituents to offer prayers for Mr. Shipstead's recovery, "although he is not a Republican...
...Randolph Hearst's morning Examiner told one of his newssnatchers that R. A. Crothers, owner of the Bulletin, had been attacked as he was emerging from a restaurant. Rushing to the Bulletin, the Examiner reporter learned that Owner Crothers was still in the restaurant, enjoying a good meal, good health. The newsgatherer departed. A few minutes later Mr. Crothers emerged from the restaurant, was set upon, beaten. The clock of the Examiner's city editor had been, it seemed, a little fast...
...city can hold a nine months school each year while the average for the rural district is seven. There is 7.7% illiteracy in rural districts and 4.4 in the city. The difference in health defects is startling. Eye defects: rural 23%, city 12. Defective teeth: rural 48%, city 33. Only 25.7% of the rural children 15 to 18 years of age are in high school as compared with 71.1% in the city...
Physical Exercise & Health. One hour's exercise a day for a week increases the capacity of the lungs and their ability to transfer oxygen from the air to the lungs. The maximum result develops in five to six weeks of such exercise. If after such period physical exercise is neglected altogether, the gain in power lasts for several months.?Connecticut's Edward Christian Schneider and Gordon C. Ring...