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...from overeating not from glands. This blunt statement was made last week in the leading U.S. gland journal (The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology) by Stanford University's Dr. Windsor Cooper Cutting. As cautious as the next doctor, Dr. Cutting offered no pat explanation of why people overeat. Wrote he: "Certainly the girl disappointed in love may take to candy, or a mother may teach her child to stuff himself, but no such obvious cause is present ... in most obese persons." Dr. Cutting suggested that overeating may be caused by "some psychologic drive which requires satiation by eating"; or maybe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Obese Persons | 3/1/1943 | See Source »

...Lorand orchestramen know what it is to rehearse twelve hours a day, seven days a week. They are not allowed to answer back, not allowed to overeat, discouraged from marrying. But in spite of their rigorous discipline, their playing has the lush abandon which distinguishes almost all Hungarian orchestras, takes on particular magic late at night when good wine keeps them company. The Lorand orchestra would be a smash-hit in a night club but night clubs are forbidden. Ambitious Edith Lorand refuses to be a mere entertainer, although serious critics may rate her as such. Hers is a concert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bandmistress | 12/2/1935 | See Source »

...drink, I don't overeat, I don't waste my energy running around in circles-I go fishing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Natural Man | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

...safe to say that not one of Harvard's fifteen hundred undergraduates will go without a Christmas dinner a week from tomorrow; most of them will probably overeat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THAT CHRISTMAS DINNER | 12/17/1920 | See Source »

...DALLINGER, 4 Stoughton.$10 paid of the return of the overeat taken from Sanders Theatre, Thursday evening, and no questions asked...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Special Notice. | 1/29/1894 | See Source »

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