Word: healthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Russians the health resorts of the Caucasus offer warm breezes and the winter sunshine which the rest of the world seeks along the French Riviera. Thither, in search of such natural restoratives, set out Leon Trotzky, from Moscow, for the second time this year...
...second eight, E. J. Canning '26 replaced John Watts '28 at stroke, as the latter has stopped rowing for the present on account of poor health. Canning's former seat at number 2 was taken by J. W. Dunlop '28. C. H. Pfortzheimer '28 coxed the first crew yesterday in place of W. E. Beer '28, who shifted temporarily to the second eight...
...issue of The Scientific Monthly contains two bits of evidence. In a highly technical account of the state of knowledge of the genes (constituent parts of sex cell chromosomes, which are believed to determine an organism's inherited characteristics), Dr. Walter L. Treadway of the U. S. Public Health Service paused to say: "In none of the experiments discussed in this article have the animals been given any painful treatments...
Bernarr Macfadden, blatant apostle of "Health." "There he stands, almost in the garb with which nature clad him, a majestic figure with lungs inflated, pompadour defying the world. His skin . . . is full of strength. . . . He has taken what should be a beautiful search for health, for vigor and for strength, and made of it an ugly and discouraging thing to every right-minded individual...
...from California, where it last appeared in epidemic form, it has been suggested that rats be destroyed by infecting them with bacteria, which would be passed from one rat to another and thus bring about wholesale extermination. On the other hand, investigators for the State Board of Health find possible contamination of human food from such infected rats. Experiments failed to demonstrate any great efficiency in the so-called exterminators but showed that they might lead to the production of a chronic carrier state, and that bacteria thus carried could cause food poisoning. The State Board of Health has ruled...