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...diet of white rats disclosed that on a certain diet they will thrive but will not produce young or, if they have young, will not have sufficient milk to feed them, will become nervous, irritable, cross with the young and even eat them. Olive, peanut, soy bean and peach kernel-oil were found to restore and promote fertility but failed to produce lactation (that is, milk for the young). The seeds of wheat, corn, hemp produced fertility and lactation. From these facts are inferred the existence of a new vitamin, called Vitamin E or Vitamin X.-Dr. Barnett Sure, University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Grand Conclave | 1/12/1925 | See Source »

...Donahey is a peach. She's had twelve children?ten are living?and she's listened to Vic's banging since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A NEW BOOK: Gubernatorial Spoon River* | 10/13/1924 | See Source »

...become one of the most popular fashions for men, and the Straw Hat Manufacturers' Association has prepared an elaborate history of the head-wear dating from pictures of Juno on old Greek vases and coins of 350 A.D., wearing a "Stephanos", which is described as "an inverted peach basket". The first styles in America were frank limitations of the old felt derby of the vintage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STRAW HATS AND HAIRCUTS GO HAND IN HAND, SAY EXPERTS | 5/28/1924 | See Source »

...Senate did not go further in investigating Secretary Fall, because Fall was ready to peach and what he would have said would have gone into high places. They didn't dare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Vanderlip's Folly? | 2/25/1924 | See Source »

...Klan had given him Klan Krest, his famous home on Peach Tree Road at Atlanta. It had honored him with the title of Emperor (the Klan's affairs are actively conducted by the Imperial Wizard through the Kloncilium). He had also received a "monthly annuity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KU KLUX KLAN: Simmony? | 2/25/1924 | See Source »

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