Word: livered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vitamin C, found abundantly in citrus fruits and tomatoes; breads, flour and cereal, most or preferably all whole grain or enriched; some butter or oleomargarine with vitamin A added; other foods to satisfy the appetite." With such a diet, added vitamins are not necessary, except vitamin D (in cod-liver oil) for babies and for older children and adults during winter months. According to most dietitians, a basic diet costs at least 24? a day per person. But for the 45,000,000 undernourished. 5? a meal is all they can spend...
...traced through the body by detection of the rays which they give off. (In the past, scientists have lost track of food after it left the alimentary canal.) The Harvard biochemists fed radioactive baking soda to rats, found that the carbon dioxide in it was being used in the liver to build carbohydrates...
...plants this process is achieved by a catalyst, chlorophyll, which uses energy from sunlight to make the food on which all life, plant and animal, depends. In this sense, the animal world has always been considered a great parasite upon the plant world. The catalyzing enzymes in the liver, equivalent of chlorophyll in plants, are still undiscovered, but the new discovery indicates that, although man is parasitic, he is at least...
...over 200 Ib. of yellow-marrow from cattle bones, the scientists extracted about one ounce of alcohol. This they separated into two component parts: batyl alcohol and chimyl alcohol. When they examined the chemical structure, the scientists found that these alcohols were the same as those found in shark-liver oil over 15 years ago by two Japanese scientists...
...Picture emerges as a dazzlingly colored musical wheeze sparkled only by the sporadic appearances of Carmen Miranda, the lively, liver-lipped singer and diaphragm dancer who came to Broadway two years ago in The Streets of Paris. Only the plushiest side of life in Rio is shown-the expansive interior of a great nightclub tall, draped and mirrored rooms of the Baron's house, the modernistic interior of the Rio Stock Exchange. In these settings, Brazilian life seems polite and well-dressed, constantly accompanied by an ordinary assortment of Mack Gordon-Harry Warren tunes sung against a background...