Word: toronto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attack of diabetes in 1921 gave Dr. Minot the clue to liver as the stuff which would best regenerate the marrow's red-cell powers. Before Drs. Frederick Grant Banting and Charles Herbert Best of the University of Toronto discovered insulin (1921), Dr. Minot kept himself alive by watching his diet. Dieting made him a food faddist. Faddism made him ask his pernicious anemia patients what they ate. Thus he discovered that most never touched meat or green vegetables. From Johns Hopkins' Dr. Elmer Verner McCollum, Dr. Minot learned that liver was rich in proteins and vitamins which...
...George F. Tittmann, West Chester, Pa.; George D. Zimmerman, Reading, Pa.; Joseph A. Hindle, Providence, R.I.; George Cantor, Bennington, Vt.; Charles E. Tuttle, Jr., Rutland, Vt.; Lemuel Bowden, Jr.; Norfolk, Va.; Donald W. Davis, Jr., Williamsburg, Va.; John H. Gilbert, Milwaukee, Wis.; Lorne Rickert, Kitchener, Ont., Canada; Phillipe Dur, Toronto, Ont., Canada; Frederic C. Bartter, Baguio, Philipine Islands
Died. "Old Lady," 28, Toronto Zoo's vegetarian baboon; in her sleep; in Toronto. Her keeper, Bill Ford, thought the addition to her diet of carrots, tomatoes and greens accounted for her living twice the normal life span of baboons. She had four children, four grandchildren, two great-grandchildren. Said Keeper Ford: "She was the finest mother I ever knew. Humans could benefit by watching her. She did not allow her children to slap their children. When she saw that done, she hit her own children and took the grandchildren away. But when the child deserved punishment, she administered...
...week did the bishops in the chapter house send slates to the college in the Cathedral. Five times did the names on the slate fail of a majority vote. Then on the sixth slate presented the electors agreed upon Rt. Rev. Derwyn Trevor Owen, 58, bishop of Niagara and Toronto. Born in England like most of Canada's 1,600 Anglican clergymen, he was educated in Toronto and Lennoxville, Que., held rectorships in Toronto and Hamilton, became bishop...
...Sclater, Old St. Andrew's Church, Toronto...