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Foods. "We are neglecting whole wheat bread, crusty bread, raw vegetables, sorghum molasses and unsalted butter. We ought to eat our lettuce just as it grows. Instead we cut it up first into tiny bits so that we won't have to chew it. This nation today is consuming sugar at the rate of 100 pounds a person a year, as against 30 pounds before the Revolutionary War. That's another failing on our part, our national tooth is too sweet."-Professor John A. Marshall, University of California...
...Chew our pipestem, and sit and stail, Watelling them, pretty and ohic and sweet...
...interest. It is hardly too much to say that the recent break between Princeton and Harvard was treated in the press as a diplomatic break between the United States and Mexico would be treated. Hubbard has written to this public and so given them another dirty rag to chew...
ADVENTURES ON THE BORDERLAND OF ETHICS-Richard C. Cabot, M. D. -Harper ($2). Professor Cabot of Social Ethics at Harvard, as sincere a servant as ever stood before the Lord and his fellows, some years ago gave a thoughtful public something to chew on in What Men Live By (1914). He now proposes the study of Ethics (a word more inclusive and less suspect than Morals) by toilers in various vine-yards-Theology, Medicine, Business, Education, Social Work...
...Heifer Jessie did not wince as the veterinarians scoured a patch of hide and cut a window into her first stomach. This was her rumen or paunch, where she was storing up her freshly swallowed fodder. Later, when these annoying men departed, she would regurgitate a large fistful and chew it at contented leisure, mixing it with saliva, so that it would slide down, a warm and pleasant blob of food, into her second stomach. This was her reticulum, her honeycomb stomach, which some day will be used for honeycomb tripe. (The rumen constitutes ordinary tripe.) From the reticulum...