Word: milked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...restless days of the Revolution, Kentuck was a land of milk and honey to the struggling settlers of the Virginia back-woods. Only the most daring of hunters had been there. Such men as Boone, Harrod, and Logan, each had returned with glowing tales of boundless fields of cane, of the rich soil, and of the numberless deer and buffalo. Aroused by these reports, little groups of pioneers fought their way over the trace to establish communities in the new country. Kentuck was not, however, the Utopia of all men's dreams. The Indians held it unlucky and used...
...would undergo a test. The test was alluring. He was going to put them in a house apart and feed them for six months on biscuits, mush. rice, syrup, gravy, sugar, sweet potatoes. The prisoners were enthusiastic until, six months later, they developed pellagra. They were cured with milk and meat, then pardoned...
Deduced Dr. Goldberger: pellagra is caused by lack of lean meat, eggs, milk, which poor people cannot afford. All contain Vitamin...
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...
...Last week came reports of his expedition, begun in January (TIME, Jan. 27). He told of nightmare rock formations, of crystal clear water and perfect cave pearls in a subterranean pool. While he was drinking, a feeble chirping split the stifling black silence. He investigated, found a nest of milk-white crickets, curiously not blind from living in the dark...