Word: dorsal
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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...body that astonishingly, at the slightest excuse, erected mountain-ranges, mounds and melons of muscles-Eugene Sandow, like Mark Hanna, Lillian Russell, George Coxey, John L. Sullivan, was one of the outstanding idols of a period that worshiped modesty in all forms, including the nude. Ladies would prod his dorsal, deltoid and pectoral development with carefully gloved fingers and ask if he were real. Sporting gentlemen with Damn-my-eyes and By-God-Sirs would lay their wagers on him when he matched strength with Samson, Cyclops, Atlas, Ajax or Hercules (rival strongmen). He was renowned for many years...
...their white, sterile fire upon his stubby head. On each side of him, in the opposite corners of a roped square, sat a boxer. On his right was a young German, whose heavy, amazed face protruded from the folds of a bathrobe that concealed a torso bulging with incredible dorsal muscles, a pair of clumsy thighs. On his left sat an old Irishman, tired and sly, with a streak of blood like a scarlet worm running down his chin from the corner of his mouth. The ghouls waited. This man in the blue suit stood before them to announce...
...giant shrimps with pincers like lobsters. The Pawnee had been seeking the rhynodontypicus, a species of leviathan taken near Swan Island in 1912. Among the tales the mariners told was that of a .vast elemental shape the Negroes called "Sapodilla Tom," which surged up beneath the boat, lifted his dorsal and was gone. Off the coast of Honduras, "a great winged, batlike monster" had escaped...