Word: biceps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a year of tightening their collective gut, Harvard students "look more like men standing up there," according to the instructors that have been doing the tightening. Norman Fradd, assistant director of physical education, and his gleaming knights of the bicep are satisfied with results so far, and most of them are impressed with the spirit they get from their classes...
...with "a hypodermic needle that looks like an air pump for Zeppelins. . . . You walk away, saying, 'Well, that wasn't too bad.' Then, suddenly, you fall to the floor in a dead faint. When you wake up, you look at your arm and discover the bicep [sic] you never suspected was there...