Word: muscular
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...tendency toward linearity" was the scientific way that Dr. Seltzer put it. Translated from statistics, this means that the trend of college students has been away form the stocky, muscular, boney build of the football player, narrow-hipped physique of the ideal Harvard gentleman...
...Dracula," stops everything to find him. Once John Barrymore, visiting a Santa Monica dance marathon as it passed the 200-hour mark, encouraged one of the contestants by remarking: "You don't know what it is to be tired unless you've worked for Curtiz." Big, balding, muscular Director Curtiz is married to but living apart from Scena rist Bess Meredyth. Only extravagance he permits himself on his $3,000 a week is his two-goal polo...
...soon as Rancher Gill had been massaged, yanked and kneaded into some semblance of muscular control, had learned all over again how to wash his face, tie his tie, handle a knife & fork, he headed for his ranch in the Amazon jungle. He was in charge of an expedition, financed by Philanthropist Sayre Merrill, 1) to worm from the Indians the black magic of curare cooking, 2) to bring back to the U. S. enough curare for laboratory use, 3) to bring back any other useful drugs from the Indian pharmacopoeia. Rancher Gill succeeded in all three tasks. The best...
Taciturn son of humble parents in Italy's fightingest province, Piedmont, his greatest talents are for organizing and understanding Italian peasants. Boccia, their game of bowls, is his favorite and at it he, big-handed and muscular, is a champion. He also excels at bridge, is said never to overbid. Among military men he rates high as an able, likable professional. France's Gamelin was his good friend, though they differed on war of position v. war of motion...
Whiskey for Arteries. In artery ailments, such as arteriosclerosis or Buerger's disease, patients are often attacked by muscular weakness so severe that their legs buckle under them. To tone up the muscles, doctors try to send a large supply of blood to the legs. For this they give drugs to expand the blood vessels, injections of salt solution, or even cut certain tracts in the sympathetic nervous system. As a check on the blood supply they take the temperature of the skin: if the temperature rises, they assume that the leg is getting a large supply of blood...