Word: lemon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...commencements soon after the Civil War, Mr. Sargent reported. Today an elaborate code, to which 95 schools and colleges adhere, governs the gowns' sizes, colors, materials. Black is for liberal arts graduates, white or grey for high school, blue for normal school, pink for music, lemon for library science, silver-grey for oratory, maize for agriculture. Harvard has its own code, uses varicolored crow's-feet on the front panels of gowns instead of velvet hood trimmings to distinguish separate orders of graduates...
...operated a dynamo which was connected with a number of electric lamps and a wattmeter which measured the amount of energy each subject was capable of expending. After about 30 days of this sort of thing, the scientists began to feed each cyclist daily glasses of chilled orange and lemon juice containing unflavored gelatin, made from the bones of animals. The men were given 60 grams (two ounces) of gelatin, the women 45 grams...
...loaf) of whole wheat a day, for carbo-lydrates; two-fifths of an ounce of salt, tor maintaining the water balance in body tissues; the same quantity of brewers' yeast, for vitamin B; one-twelfth of an ounce of cod-liver oil, for vitamin A; half a lemon twice weekly, for vitamin C. If two ounces of dried skim-milk powder are available, brewers' yeast can be omitted. Other corrections: growing children need more cod-liver oil and skim-milk powder than adults, but less salt. If lemons or oranges are not available, the committee suggests that scurvy...
...almost 200 years physicians have known that a few spoonfuls of orange or lemon juice every day will prevent the painful hemorrhages, loose teeth, swollen legs and brittle bones of scurvy. Scurvy is still a disease of Dixie farmers, many of whom do not get enough fresh fruits or vegetables containing antiscorbutic Vitamin C, but last week it was also ravaging Yankees in Maine...
...sign language. Addie Belle gave small thought to her own hollow cheeks and stringy hair but she brooded long over the bowed legs of her pretty, undernourished child. Several months ago she summoned all her courage and fled with six-year-old Annabelle to the office of Dr. Robert Lemon Eastman. Trembling with fear, she pointed to Annabelle's legs, indicated that she wanted Dr. Eastman to straighten them. The surprised physician examined the child, later went to Columbus to tell psychologists at Ohio State University about the remarkable pair...