Word: biceps
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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...
...Federal Trade Commission examiner, "a fiction story, which is very commonly done in writing." But writing under his own name Mr. Hoffman later accused Mr. Atlas of being "The World's Greatest Fakir." Mr. Atlas, roared Mr. Hoffman in his Strength & Health, "does not have a 17-in. bicep as he claims. He does not have a 14½in. forearm. He does not have a 47-in. chest. He cannot pull six autos with his teeth. He cannot lift 250 Ib. above his head five or six times without straining. . . .I defy him to carry 500 Ib. five...