Word: milk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only at Harvard is a milk shake a glass of flavored milk...
Responses Eleanor Roosevelt was asked the oldest living question in, newspaper interviews: what do you eat? The answer: whatever the others eat, since she rarely eats alone. Otherwise: fruit, coffee and one piece of toast for breakfast (after an eye opener of hot water and lemon juice) ; crackers and milk for lunch ; "I'm usually out to dinner." Jules Romaines, France's marathon serialist (Men of Good Will), clucked sadly at the writer's lot in the U.S., where "a writer ... is regarded as a specialist...
Death from Inertia. Dr. Sabin quickly determined the reasons: politics-ridden health offices, too few doctors, too few hospitals and health centers (only five of Colorado's 63 counties have full-time health departments), no statewide pasteurization of milk, inadequate inoculation of children, pollution of streams and irrigation ditches. Snorted Dr. Sabin: "We think of our state as a health resort. Yet we're dying faster than people in most states...
...afraid to ask for anything you want," they were told at the hotel, "even if it is bird's milk." Later, the travelers were taken to call on the Patriarch. There they met Archdeacon Gregori Antonenko and others of the Patriarch's entourage, went to see a nearby church which was functioning. Said Father Sergei: "There are some 34 churches now in Moscow, filled to capacity every Sunday. Young people, old people, everybody comes. But somehow Moscow is a crude village. All the time I was there I didn't see a single intelligent face...
...Have Nots. There were other vicious cycles. For want of soda ash, glass makers have been forced to cut down drastically; for want of glass bottles, dairies in New York and elsewhere have been forced to cut down on deliveries of milk, which is somewhat short for want of cows. For want of castor oil, used as brake and shock absorber fluid, automakers could not roll out all the cars they had hoped to deliver. For want of nails to make curing racks. Georgia farmers this year were threatened with the loss of half of their $57,000,000 peanut...