Word: healthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...glad Sir Austen Chamberlain is restored to health,? because now I can start to criticize him! As for Lord Cushendun(t) he is just a lay figure, stuffed and wound up to play the records placed on his gramophone. The Tory foreign policy is not mere folly, it is madness...
...Scarcely restored to health but convalescent on a round-the-world sea voyage is Sir Austen Chamberlain, a pillar of the Conservative ("Tory") Cabinet in which he is Foreign Sec- retary...
...used to be taken for granted that the children of parents who lived 80 years had a better chance of living longer. Recent experiments have shown that is not true. Such children seldom average more than 52 years of age. (Linsly Rudd Williams, president of the New York Tuberculosis & Health Association...
...rank and file, and musicians of this corps, we learn, amount to 235; and we also learn that every one of them who left West Point well, was in good health when the corps entered the town, after a march of nearly 250 miles, over a mountainous country, and having for the most part of the time very bad weather. What we have seen of their police, movements, manual and position satisfies us that the high praise bestowed upon them in every place through which they have passed has been realized, and fully justifies the best expectations of the public...
...last week's Leper Mission meeting Dr. George W. McCoy, director of the Hygienic Laboratory of the U. S. Public Health Service, was brave enough to be pessimistic about reported cures of leprosy. He was for long director of the Leprosy Research Station at Molokai. As others, he injected chaulmoogra oil into the veins of lepers. The oil caused the lepers terrific pain. Often they fought against its use. Yet it seemed to stop the rodent, rotting, eating course of the disease. Chaulmoogra oil and its esters are the only medicines doctors know to treat leprosy...