Word: strenuousness
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...fighting. In 18 years in the U.S.Senate (1911-29) he had heaped fire & brimstone on the League of Nations, Prohibition, women suffragists, Federalism and numberless other targets. His last attack was on the doctors who wanted to hospitalize him. Hale & hearty almost to the last, he had spent a strenuous summer fishing at his north Michigan ranch. Now, at 82, he preferred to die in his spacious log house, doctors notwithstanding...
Heavy lab periods and examinations have kept some of the squad members from working out regularly at 4:45 o'clock, and although practice sessions have been strenuous, the team has not yet rounded into the high-powered outfit that characterized peacetime Crimson harrier teams...
...they made some of the rats lie quietly in straitjacketing cages, allowed others the run of full-sized cages and forced them to swim a few minutes every day. Result: the resting rats had a much higher death rate. Dr. Harrison pointed out that he does not advocate immediate strenuous exercise for human sufferers from heart attacks (it takes longer for a human heart to heal than a rat's), but he thinks that those with certain heart diseases should get out of bed very soon (sometimes in a few days) after acute symptoms have subsided. Too much time...
...James Fleece Rinehart, of the University of California Hospital. Looking for clues to human resistance to the disease, he found that polio victims had a subnormal amount of salt in their blood. Previous studies have pointed out that the disease seems to attack particularly healthy youngsters after strenuous summer athletics-when they would presumably have sweated out a lot of salt. His tentative conclusion: if you haven't enough salt in your system, you may be an easier victim of polio...
...preparation for the first race, only three weeks away, Mikkola is molding his team into top shape with strenuous distance and speed workouts. Although at present he considers this year's squad not so good as the 1943 outfit, he states that "We have some new fellows and I hope that they can come along pretty well...