Word: healthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Minister of Health Neville Chamberlain (brother of Sir Austen) vigorously attacked a resolution moved by Dr. E. Graham Little (Senior Physician of the East London Hospital for Children), in which it was demanded that an "authoritative inquiry be made into the whole position of irregular practitioners" (chiropractors, osteopaths, "bone setters...
...Conrad as a small boy pointed to the dark area on a map of Africa and said, "Some day I will go there." At the time he made the trip, Conrad was still a sailing captain, and had yet to write his first novel. The journey so weakened his health that he was forced into a retirement from the sea and shortly afterwards started writing in earnest...
...McCarthy, stocky, smooth faced, of medium height, heavy, spectacled and prematurely grey, sat looking at the patient, asked a few questions, declared he suffered from "prostatic trouble" curable by "electric treatment" for $100, $20 down. He operates the "House of Health," where in a demurely yet impressively equipped waiting room a buxom, black-eyed, black-haired demoiselle welcomes the "lobs." But they work for H. L. Giles and August E. Kroening, who syndicate their institutions with branches in Manhattan, Jersey City, Newark, N. J., Kansas City, Montreal and Detroit. They have been harried about the U.S. and Canada...
From the University of California, Drs. Herbert M. Evans and K. S. Bishop last week announced through the California State Board of Health the influence of the mysterious Vitamin X which they now have renamed E. This vitamin stimulates reproduction in animals, prevents sterility. It is a complex organic compound, like the four other known vitamins,* and occurs in lettuce, wheat germs, alfalfa and egg yolk. Because humans eat largely of these foods, the discovery has little bearing on their habits...
...Wood, 68, famed founder and retired President of the American Woolen Co., world's largest textile concern, son of a Portugese sea cook named Jacintho (who later took the name William Jason Wood), at Daytona Beach, Fla., by shooting himself through the mouth. He had long had ill health...