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...mails do not intrude there, nor yet the telephone and the telegraph. And after resting, we would come down the mountain a piece and board with a godly, breech-clouted native, and eat poi and dirt and give thanks to whom all thanks belong, for those privileges, and never housekeep any more." Yet, aside from a tantalizing shipboard glimpse of a Honolulu quarantined by cholera in 1895, he never found his way back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Innocent Abroad | 3/18/1966 | See Source »

...several hoorays for Phyllis McGinley [June 18] and her philosophy! May she continue to write her charming poetry, housekeep, and defend all other keepers of the home for many more years to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 2, 1965 | 7/2/1965 | See Source »

Like the old woman who lived in a shoe, the medical scientists who housekeep for vitamins have an unmanageable lot of charges. At present, for example, chemists believe that there are eight varieties of vitamin B, at least ten of D. One member of the vitamin B family is also known as vitamin G, another newcomer as factor Y. Two relatives of the C tribe are known as J and P. Most practical name-calling, so far as scientific convenience is concerned, would be to recognize each vitamin by its chemical name. Thus vitamin E would be known as alpha...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Vitamins | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

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