Word: vitaminous
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...successively a Washington reporter, Belgian and Russian correspondent, European graduate student, U.S. college professor (Antioch, 1922-23), associate editor of the Baltimore Sun (1923-24). He discovered his talent for the affable packaging of intellectual pabulum with his Story of Mankind (1921). With a roughage of Dutch wit, a vitamin-content of "human-interest background," and doodled-over with his own pen-&-ink sketches, his The Story of the Bible, The Arts, Van Loon's Lives sold 6,000,000 in his lifetime...
Perhaps three out of every four U.S. citizens consume vitamins; in 1943 the vitaminded citizenry swallowed some $200 million worth of the colored pellets. Last week they got good news. Vitamin prices were slashed in some cases...
...patient taking Dicumarol need not fear that he will bleed to death. Dr. Link explained that it can be counteracted by 1) a small transfusion, 2) a large dose (an injection) of vitamin K, the antihemorrhagic vitamin in leafy vegetables...
Griffiths does not know the reason for the difference between wild and tame rats, but he is inclined to think that vitamin and mineral deficiencies in the diet of laboratory rats may have something to do with it. He has also found some evidence that wild rats, like other city dwellers, develop relative immunity to noise...
Religion has been added to the U.S. Army's K rations. Around a million packages of vitamin-rich food (32 oz., 3,726 calories) for men going into battle, the Army last week wrapped leaflets entitled Hymns From Home...