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Word: hyperthyroids (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1938-1938
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Theodore Roosevelt characterized his age when he preached the virtues of the strenuous life. To later students, that period looks more like a hyperthyroid era of American history-an era marked by strident praise of action for the sake of action, when Richard Harding Davis was reporting breathless adventures in South America, Roosevelt I was hunting in Africa, and an inclusive, optimistic belief in the value of a he-man-diet of sleeping under the stars, and spending hours in the saddle suffused popular literature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Strenuous Life | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

Laureate of the hyperthyroid era was Jack London, socialist and believer in Nordic supremacy, who wrote 50 books in 16 years and lived as strenuously as the he-men he wrote about. In Sailor on Horseback, Irving Stone, whose novelized biography of van Gogh, Lust for Life, was a best-seller four years ago, gives a good picture of London's incredible literary labors, a good account of his strenuous domestic life, a dim picture of the period in which his books flourished. Originally serialized in the Saturday Evening Post, Sailor on Horseback is brisk and candid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Strenuous Life | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

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