Word: watered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...representatives wondered...how the Russians could consume such large quantities of vodka and keep sober, when it had an intoxicating effect upon the Americans. But we have learned since that Stalin and the Soviets outwit the representatives of other nations by plying them with vodka while the Russians drink water from vodka bottles...
...Everett Kinsey and Dr. Leona Zacharias, had worked out a theory. Premature babies cannot digest fats and so do not get a natural supply of the vitamins (A, D, K and E) found in butterfat. To make up for this, some hospitals give them the vitamins, especially A, in water. Hospitals which use this treatment, the Bostonians reported, have a higher R.L.F. rate than others...
...prevent anemia destroys vitamin E. While practically nothing is known about the workings of vitamin E in the human body, this was a lead worth following up. The Owenses arranged to get a special preparation, d-1 alpha tocopherol acetate, rich in vitamin E, to be given in a water base...
...Prodigy Furuhashi. Instead of the standard six-beat leg kick, carefully synchronized with the arm strokes, he uses a slower, but very powerful kick which at times is not in rhythm with his arm movements at all. His arms revolve stiffly like bicycle pedals; he rides low in the water and, especially to flabbergasted U.S. competitors, he looks like a weird, power-driven machine...
After several test dips and three days' delay because of rough water, Barton clambered through the 15-inch porthole in the rust-streaked white ball, and made the plunge for the record. He was in constant telephone communication with his surface crew. His comments, amplified topside by loudspeakers...