Word: healthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...general conference, which began its deliberations at Geneva, Americans present were: Representative Stephen G. Porter, chairman of the U. S. delegation; Bishop Charles H. Brent, Dr. Rupert Blue, ex-Surgeon General of the Public Health Department, Edwin L. Neville...
...worship of authors has never gone to greater lengths?lengths possibly of questionable value to their object. Idolatry has made of R. L. S. a figure dizzily perched on the precarious eminence of perfection. He is permitted no faults, no weaknesses?other than the exalted one of physical ill-health. On the other hand, there have been daring iconoclasts no less superlative in their attacks upon this knight of the spotless scutcheon? notably W. E. Henley, his erstwhile patron and intimate, who registered savage protest against the "Seraph in Chocolate," the "Barley-Sugar Effigy" of legend. With nicely considered moderation...
...Physical Education Day?"Playgrounds and Athletic Fields Mean a Strong, Healthy Nation." Points : "A playground for every child," "Physical education and health habits for all," "Safety education saves life." Slogans: "A sick body makes a sick mind," "Athletes all," "Visit the schools today...
...entirely inadequate in powers is to be transferred from the Department of the Interior, but not one additional power is granted it. The other functions of the new department are as heterogeneous as the sources from which they are drawn. In brief it proposes to take over the Public Health Service, the Veterans' Bureau, the Civil War Pension Bureau, and numerous other stray functions which have been unwanted step-children to the departments that have administered them...
...Yale on Saturday adorned with a chrysanthemum, an aster, a cosmos, a zinnia, a hollyhock, a gladiolus, or a dahlia, will be in danger of having the flowers seized and incurring a heavy fine and imprisonment, unless they are armed with a special permit that certifies to the health of the flowers...