Word: meat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since 1913 the Russell Sage Institute of Pathology has been studying the effects of different diets. Messrs. Stefansson and Anderson were particularly good subjects because during Arctic adventures Stefans son lived about seven years on meat alone, while Anderson ate nothing else for over a year. There was no danger of the imaginary headaches or indigestion that might beset beef-eating beginners. Both men lost a little weight at the start and then trained back to the pink...
...barrage of stockholders' criticism alone, in the absence of all the Childs-William, Luther, E. Ellsworth, William S., all directors-admitted that January, 1928, earnings were one-half of those of January, 1927. Stockholder Mathey said the loss was due to the restaurants' failure to serve meat, their pushing of vegetables and "health foods" (savita, salt substitute). Miss Charlotte Currie, downtown businesswoman stockholder, spoke for business womankind, now refusing to "Go Vegetable-wise," eating elsewhere than at Childs. Other stockholders complained of "stores fitted out like palaces" unable to draw trade; lack of display of the Childs...
...generally known that dietetic authorities minimize the use of meat, and a great many exclude it from the diet altogether. The least one can do, in justice to himself, is to minimize meat. Accordingly, we, through research and on the advice of eminent authorities, are disposed to offer to the public a list of foods that are chosen for their dietetic value and scientifically prepared, in order that we may have the ultimate satisfaction of seeing that the public benefits by this highly intelligent doctrine. Therefore, we repeat the phrase which has already been stated-Man is made of what...
...Significance. The number of books with terse culinary titles grows fast. BREAD-OIL-STEEL-have worried bones of social contention. Now MEAT. But if Author Steele started with a social passion he soon abandoned it to fondle various phases of human distortion with apparent fascination. Readers who have long counted on his stories for sound enjoyment, will be astonished to encounter here a collection of picayune obscenities importantly treated, and a legitimate argument abused and invalidated...
...wrestle with plots. He has written well over a hundred short stories many of which have been published in Harper's and the Pictorial Review. Bubbles and The Man Who Saw Through Heaven were O. Henry prize stories. When Hell Froze was the winner in a Harper contest. Meat is his second novel...