Word: healthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recall that I said anything about athletics, although a college president can hardly say anything without being supposed to allude slyly to that subject. Of course I believe in athletics sports, as promoting health in body and soul; and, being human, should not be cast down by a larger share of victories...
Examination for Marriage. A lay deputy, Dr. W. Sinclair Bowen of Washington, D. C., proposed that a board of three to five physicians of high standing be appointed by the Bishop, the health officer and the President of the Medical Association of each community, to certify to the physical and mental health of all persons before their marriage by the Church. He said that such action would reduce the number of divorces, of children born blind, of morons, of criminals...
...Saturday Evening Post, gigantic veteran of magazines, last week celebrated its heartiness and health by increasing its advertising rates. The reason given was increased circulation, evidenced by the following figures representing net paid circulation as certified by the Audit Bureau of Circulations...
Football, like business, is seldom pursued for its own sake. As a prominent halfback once said: "I don't run back punts for my health." It is not for amusement that the Harvard squad charges and blocks and tackles all afternoon, and it is not for sheer love of sport that they are now getting ready to grind through signal practice by artificial light. In fact, all this practicing is mighty hard work; ever so much more work than brain work. There is a malicious popular belief that football players are not naturally inclined toward brain work. This is unfair...
Last January the Bolshevik Triumvirate-Stalin, Zinoviev, Kemenev-triumphed over him, ousted him as Chairman of the War Council, disciplined him for alleged party insubordination, and sent him to the Caucasus "for his health." It was recognized that the excuse was a trumped up one. By May the star of Trotzky was again waxing portentously. He returned to Moscow, and has labored unceasingly for the economic aggrandizement of the Soviets* ever since. At present he is thought to be on exceedingly good terms with the Communist leaders, and can count on the powerful influence of Lenin's widow. Hence...