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...disease is hereditary. Plain overeating does not bring it on unless the glands are frail to begin with. Most people who develop diabetes are overweight, but when the disease begins, they lose weight, develop a voracious appetite, a quenchless thirst. In the advanced stages, the blood is heavily laden with sugar, pus germs flourish, fat metabolism goes awry, and a victim's body is flooded with poisonous waste products...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Diabetes | 10/20/1941 | See Source »

...customs of his country and time, we cannot follow. But his character is so universal that even Renan cries: 'Whatever the surprises of history, Jesus will never be surpassed.' Men of all generations find in his trust in God, his loyalty to his Cause, his love of men, his quenchless hope, in these timeless and universal qualities suffused by his divine spirit, their unsurpassable and complete Ideal."?From Manhood of the Master, one of the books by Dr. Fosdick which has taken his "circulation" well beyond the million mark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: At Geneva | 9/21/1925 | See Source »

...strong resolve a quenchless thirst to slake...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POESY TO THE POET. | 10/11/1878 | See Source »

...What quenchless Greek fire burns low in those eyes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO A PORTRAIT OF BIANCA CAPELLO BY TITIAN. | 2/12/1875 | See Source »

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