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...been sacrificed. Loss of weight seems to be fairly independent of the water intake. It is a fact that a fasting person demands less water than a person on a regular diet. Such a person rarely takes more than a pint (two tumblersful) of water per day. In chronic inanition loss of the original weight can be higher without death than in complete starvation, can be reduced to 40% or 50% of original weight and has been known to have been more. Medical history contains at least one case, a woman, whose weight fell 62% before death...
Partial starvation is used as a therapeutic measure in the treatment of many diseases. After the War, in Germany, it was noted that there was a decrease of diseases of the following type: chronic nephritis, ailments of the stomach and liver, Bright's disease and diabetes, all of which are associated with good living and rich food...
...announcement ... is the crowning example of the chronic inferiority complex from which the book business in this country seems always to have suffered. I regard the decision of these publishers ... as shortsighted, unwise, and likely, if it has any effect whatsoever, to have a very disturbing effect indeed on the industry as a whole...
...impossible for sincere believers in a cause to master an unbiased, judicious view of the situation of which they are a part. On one side lies emotional fanaticism, on the other, indecision. The Scrubwomen affair has provided fuel for much vari-coloured fire which includes the extremely red, the chronic critic of established authority, the opportunist with a personal grudge, and the sincere knight errant of the wronged...
...Times said: "Norman Foster, as Toby McLean, gives an honest and restrained interpretation of a sportswriter for a metropolitan daily newspaper. ..." Whether the Times meant to be sarcastic or complimentary to Norman Foster, it was certainly not flattering to metropolitan sportswriters. By current Hollywood standards, the more or less chronic inebriation of Toby McLean is truly restrained; by the standards of actuality, contrary to all accepted belief, it is somewhat less so. But so far as actuality goes, Foster on the screen has an inestimable advantage over the character in Katharine Brush's best seller: he is flesh & blood...