Word: toronto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...haired Ruth Tower-Corsan of Toronto: $3,000, first prize for the 10-mile Dominion Championship swim; in 5½ hr., with Evelyn Armstrong of Detroit second; in Lake Ontario...
...Kirkwood, oldtime Australian trick shot golfer: the Canadian Open championship with 282 for 72 holes; at Toronto...
Fortnight ago Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum announced that Sir Robert Ludwig Mond had given it Charles Sandre's toy army. Sir Robert is a trustee of the Royal Ontario Museum, a brother of the late British nickel tycoon, Alfred Moritz Mond, first Baron Melchett. While the Museum was waiting for the army to arrive, its director, Dr. Charles Trick Currelly, called the colorful collection "effective anti-war propaganda. . . . Just as in arms and armor the diabolical nature of the whole thing is revealed, so we will show the public how Napoleon's gay uniforms...
Last week Professor Herbert Davenport Kay & associates of Toronto suggested in The Journal of Nutrition that beryllium, a metal related to calcium and now coming into industrial use (it strengthens and hardens aluminum alloys), may be an obscure cause of rickets. When the experimenters added as little as 2% of beryllium carbonate to the diet of rats, the rats grew humpbacked, wobbled as they walked, showed practically all the other signs of rickets. No amount of cod-liver oil, viosterol, ultraviolet light or sunlight improved their condition. Best deduction is that the beryllium combines with phosphorus, which is essential...
Three or four years later there were fewer deaths from diabetes than in 1922 when Toronto's Banting announced insulin. But in recent years the death rate is higher. Explanation (according to Metropolitan Life's famed Dr. Dublin): most of the increased deaths are in the higher age brackets, insulin having lengthened the life of diabetics...