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...dairies, just as it licenses Professor Steenbock's irradiation methods to drug and food manufacturers. The importance of Vitamin D lies in its power to make the body use calcium and phosphorus. The natural source of Vitamin D is the skin when exposed to the ultraviolet rays of sunlight. Civilized people living in northern latitudes get insufficient sunlight, hence insufficient Vitamin D. The deficiency shows up in the bones as rickets, in the teeth as decay. Primitive northern people, the Eskimo's, suffer very little from rickets or caries. They get their Vitamin D from the great quantities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Vitaminizer & Teeth | 12/19/1932 | See Source »

...about decayed teeth. Dr. R. Gordon Agnew, pathologist, and Mrs. Agnew, nutritionist, had observed that the filthy-mouthed Chinese and Tibetans at West China Union University. Cheng-tu. Szechwan Province, where they teach, had sound teeth under crusts of tartar. The Agnews examined native foods, reasoned that phosphorus and sunlight were the essential preventives of tooth decay. They took leaves of absence from West China Union University to prove their theory on rats at the University of Toronto, their alma mater. Last week they were in Manhattan to tell missionaries, doctors and dentists that they have been able to produce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Vitaminizer & Teeth | 12/19/1932 | See Source »

...tell amateurs how to build gadgets at home. Features of the first issue: more on Life-After-Death by Sir Oliver Lodge; an argument for parachutes for airline passengers by 'Chute-Inventor Floyd Smith; industrial application of intelligence tests, by Colgate University's Professor Donald Anderson Laird; Sunlight v. Windows by General Electric's Physicist Matthew Luckiesh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Progress | 12/5/1932 | See Source »

...noon sunlight of a clear, biting November day showed the air of the class-room in Sever to be a bit dustier, the walls a bit dingier, the benches a bit more battle-scarred than could have been suspected in the morning half-light. The instructor listened with a faint boredom to the halting translation which mangled one of the better odes of Horace, and from time to time made impatient corrections in the well-modulated clipped syllables which only an Englishman can acquire from Oxford. As he turned the pages with his pale fingers he wondered vaguely what sort...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 11/5/1932 | See Source »

...water colors that has been showing in the Fogg Art Museum for the part month will close Saturday. Three pictures from Southern France and Spain show him experimenting in the Impressionist manner, using strong color broken up into spots of different tones to give effects of full sunlight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WATER COLOR SHOW AT FOGG CLOSES SATURDAY | 10/27/1932 | See Source »

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