Word: peanut
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Peanut Butter...
Last week there congregated in Washington many a heavy thinker for the annual meeting of the National Academy of Sciences. Half a peanut an hour, the thinkers were told, would furnish sufficient calories to sustain their heaviest mental work; thus a small bag of peanuts each would have seen their brains through the three-day sessions of the Academy...
...Francis Gano Benedict of the Carnegie Institution was, with his wife, Cornelia Golay Benedict, the author of this peanut theory. They reached their conclusions after a series of tests on six subjects, observed under the following conditions: 1) in a state of mental vacuity; 2) with their attention being called periodically by electrical signals; 3) solving complex problems without aid of pencil or paper (multiplication of 43 x 87 was one problem...
...conclusion reached by Dr. & Mrs. Benedict was that the popular notion that the calory demand of the brain is proportionate to its labor, is false. An oyster cracker or a half-peanut would sustain Albert Einstein's brain while doing intensive work on his field equations for one hour, the same number of calories would furnish a parlor maid only energy enough to dust a desk for five minutes...
...tomb of a priest, the Rev. Father Patrick J. Power, dead of phthisis some 60 years ago, lately reputed to possess great healing powers (TIME. Nov. 25 et seq.). Private prayer and meditation in the cemetery were impossible: the place was a bedlam of the faithful, the curious, the peanut-and-postcard-selling. At length William Henry Cardinal O'Connell, Archbishop of Boston, ordered the hordes away, the gates locked while the Church pondered the phenomena and decided whether or not God's hand was really manifest...