Word: upton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Upton Sinclair once wrote: "When a man dies after three days without food, he dies of fright, not starvation. Unless that three days follows months of malnutrition and semi-starvation...
Though Mark Twain, Upton Sinclair, and plenty of other witnesses (of whom I am one) have asserted and proved that a reasonably well-nourished body will show no pronounced effect from even a ten-day fast, newspapers constantly give harrowing details of emaciation and dissolution after fasts of three and four days...
...after two years suffering with nervous indigestion. I tried a week's fast-induced by reading Upton Sinclair's articles on fasting as a cure. I ate nothing, drank only water. (Incidentally, I had just had my tonsils removed on the day my fast began...
...that the Port of New York Authority is "unquestionably the most impressive example of successful Socialism in the U. S." I wonder if anyone has ever called your attention to the U. S. Army, the U. S. Navy, the U. S. Postoffice, and the U. S. Public School system? UPTON SINCLAIR Pasadena, Calif...
...Painted by Jerry Farnsworth. Robes from an antique Manchu portrait loaned by Upton Close...