Word: vitamined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...commercial process for making synthetic vitamin A, last of the important vitamins to be produced artificially, was announced last week by Distillation Products, Inc., of Rochester, N.Y. Vitamin A, needed for proper growth and vision and for resistance to disease, is found in fresh vegetables and other natural foods. Its chief commercial source is fish-liver oils...
...early. He averages ten hours' sleep. He likes neither music nor dancing. "You know," he says, "colored people do not like music and dancing any better than white people . . . the white people just think they do." At home, he carefully takes his vitamin pills, spends a lot of time baby-sitting with his nine-month-old son, and according to his wife (whom he met at U.C.L.A.), always has his face buried in a paper. Like most ballplayers, he soaks up every word in every newspaper in town that concerns him and his team. His reader reaction: "Some reporters...
...farm, such fancy training aids as vitamin pills and patent-medicine tonics have long been discarded. Says Jimmy Jones: "Grass has pills beat." One Jones trick: in hot weather, young horses are turned out to run at night instead of during...
From his first morning's awakening in New Delhi to breathe "an air that was like some noble nourishment, distilled to rarity," Taylor determined to cultivate his awareness of India. He diagnosed the "sahib sickness" of British colonials and U.S. officers alike as "spiritual avitaminosis" (vitamin deficiency), caused by a refusal to be open-minded toward India's beauties. Taylor felt that it would be fruitful for him-hence for Britain and the U.S.-to look on Indian life as a "loyal cultural opposition" in ordering the world of the future...
...hour treatment for the D.T.s. He has used it "with safety and marked success," he said, in a number of "uncomplicated" cases. Dr. Seliger thinks that his treatment confirms his theory that one of the chief causes of the D.T.s is lack of food, especially vitamin...