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Word: thiamin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...commercials showing muscles throbbing with pain. Also questionable is the indiscriminate use of such words as "safe," "without risk" and "harmless." Broad casters also often resort to pseudo-pharmaceutical names or impressive "scientific" terms that the average viewer may not understand ("If you're tired from lack of thiamin and riboflavin . . ."). Others relate doctors and celebrities to a product by innuendo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Great Medicine Show | 10/22/1956 | See Source »

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