Word: manhood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Enlargement of the prostate by chronic inflammation is a common ailment of elderly men. It is probably not a tumor process. Although it makes the victims uneasy and uncomfortable, it is rarely painful. Authorities estimate that one of three males over 60, suffers from prostatic hypertrophy. Gonorrhea in early manhood is a frequent, but by no means the sole cause.* The prostate gland nestles between the male bladder and rectum. Anatomically it corresponds to the womb. Normally it has the shape of a large chestnut 1¼ to 1½ in. wide by 1 to 1¾ in. long...
Rhodes candidates are judged on the basis of these four general points; their literary and scholastic ability and attainments; qualities of manhood, truth, courage, devotion to duty, sympathy, kindliness, unselfishness, and fellowship; moral character and leadership; and physical vigor as shown by interest in outdoor sports or in other ways...
This tendency is a natural and inevitable one. Advanced graduate teaching and research have developed everywhere, from small beginnings to great achievements. The country needs these more and more as it grows to manhood. And graduate work almost of necessity turns to the great cities. The centers of research everywhere are the urban centers: London, Paris, Berlin, New York, Boston, Chicago, Baltimore,--New Haven too (let us give our dearest enemy his due; he has an intermediate position, by no means disadvantageous...
...contest was held for no such spectacular reason. Its purpose was described in the rules as "to stimulate the interest of the youth of America in mental development, with particular emphasis on scientific matters, and, more generally, in the high ideals that make for the highest type of American manhood." When reports that he would retire continued, Inventor Edison said, "I never intend retiring. It's unhealthy...
...gubernatorial criticism, he made them again with these words: "I serve notice now on the Governor of New York [Alfred Emanuel Smith] and all who train with him that he can not roll into the White House on a beer keg and a wine barrel, for the militant manhood and the emancipated womanhood of America will rise in the majesty of their might and smash every jog and break every bottle and roll every beer keg and every champagne barrel into the Atlantic Ocean...