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Word: healthful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...excelled unmistakably and whose intellectual powers approach genius. Group two is composed of distincly high-grade men who have no attained true eminence; Group three might be said to hold the Average Man, not good, not bad; Group four is made up largely of the "unfortunates," who through ill health, lack of means, or absence of a normal endowment of native ability rather than the will to succeed, have prevented them shaping their careers satisfactorily; and Group five is reserved for "misfits", actual failures, and "undesirables...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NATURAL SELECTION | 6/21/1927 | See Source »

...President (for executive clemency) and that his sentence would begin from the time he entered the jail, not from the time he entered the hospital. So Earl Carroll entered Atlanta, was taken to the prison hospital, became No. 24,909. Despatches said that when he regains his health he will be given the position of bath house orderly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Sargent v. Carroll | 6/20/1927 | See Source »

Seventy-five women asked the Chicago city council last week to pass an ordinance requiring women to wear more underwear, as a matter of public health, when they try on dresses in the city stores. Councilmen were astounded, promised to investigate, learned that many a woman now wears under her dress only a pair of bloomers and a brassiere. The waist line, as well as the neck and arms, is bare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Underwear | 6/20/1927 | See Source »

Ironically enough, now that the left hand has learned the cunning that was lost by the right, the right shows symptoms of returning to health. "See," says Artist Lawrence, slowly lifting his paralyzed arm, "I will soon be able to use them both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Right & Left | 6/20/1927 | See Source »

...hitherto romantic, Victorian, uncomplicated tribe. For, last he is, the last grown-up at least. His son dies as a boy; we accompany him to school, suffer with him the heartaches and the thousand natural shocks that he is heir to. But the first serious attack on Hanno's health severs the thin thread that holds him to life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thomas Mann--In General and In Particular | 6/15/1927 | See Source »

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