Word: leans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...loss. But if it be true that the Mormon Tabernacle rests, among other things, on sugar beets, it is likewise true that the Church's beet-backing has been primarily for the benefit of the farmer. And the Church is not likely to forsake him in his lean years...
Last week came word from Germany of a desperate economy within her foremost airline, Luft Hansa. which has come upon lean times because of decreased government subsidy for 1930. On May 1, Luft Hansa will begin an air taxi service with a force of 50 planes now idling away profitable flying time in hangars. The plan is to charge a flat rate of 44? per mile on chartered ships, irrespective of the number of passengers or whether the plane will be used for the return trip. Several passengers in one plane will make the individual rate attractively...
...natics. Eating vegetables and fruits is just like a form of religion." Last week Dr. Louis Harry Newburgh of the University of Michigan's Medical College, no fanatic, gave out a statement. He related an experiment he had conducted: a laboratory worker, fed a diet of 32% lean meat for a period of six months, developed nephritis (kidney in flammation). Concluded Dr. Newburgh: "The Stefansson test was not an all-meat diet, since only 20% was muscle fibre, or lean meat. The rest was animal fat. This Arctic diet had no more lean meat or protein than an ordinary...
...last few years of his life he lived in England, was a great & good friend of the late great Joseph Korzeniowski (Conrad). No less a pundit than Herbert George Wells has said that Crane's The Open Boat is "the finest short story in the English language." Tall, lean, with very straight hair, hollow eyes, drooping mustache. Author Crane moved, smiled, spoke slowly. He died of consumption at Baden, Germany, in 1900. Other books: George's Mother, The Little Regiment, The Monster...
Surpassing lean meat in value is yeast, which was distributed by the Red Cross during the Mississippi flood of 1927 to prevent pellagra. Below lean meat come milk, eggs, wheat germ, tomato juice. Vegetables have little G value, fats and oils none...