Word: muscular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the past week, a number of athletes, of both sexes, paraded Moscow streets. Men with bulging biceps and prominent pectorals walked with equally muscular maidens. The sole costume was a little apron and a red ribbon across the shoulders, bearing the inscription "Down With Shame." Infuriated crowds gave chase and the shameless ones found safety in police protection. The Red authorities said: "Don't do it again...
Physical Culture, which deals with the human breed much as the average farm journal deals with pigs, cows, horses, is sometimes spoken of as "America's largest *livestock publication." Typical of 103 pages of advertising in this July issue (replete with " muscular poses" by Earle E. Liederman, Charles Atlas, Lionel Strongfort, Prof. Titus et al.; with "beauty poses" by Annette Kellermann, Mile. Nadje, Nana Sterling et al.) : YOU CAN DEVELOP EVERY MUSCLE IN YOUR BODY TO AMAZING PROPORTIONS YOU CAN ACQUIRE SUPER STRENGTH RIP OFF YOUR SHIRT "Come to me and I'll shoot you so full...
...Sims portrait shows Britain's monarch in full regalia, with sceptre and sword, seated on his throne. It idealizes and refines the not-unlined face. It gives His Majesty dainty, tapering legs. It makes the fingers, actually the short, muscular digits of a sport-loving country gentleman, appear long and willowy...
...Cherbourg station, flinging pennies, nickels, dimes to a curiosity-loud populace. Set down at their chateaux, they unpacked their luggage, recovered their land-legs, settled down to a fortnight of final conditioning. The swimmers went off to swim, gently at first. The runners loped, tentatively. The muscular mastodons perspired. Meanwhile another ocean liner moved out of New York harbor to plow her long furrow eastward over the Atlantic. Appropriately named the Homeric, this ship bore more of America's cohorts to Olympian conflict in the distant land. On her decks lounged the famed Yale crew who, with their slender octoreme...
...uric acid in the blood, was the marked fall in the amount of sugar. This resembled nothing so much as what occurs when an overdose of insulin is given to lower the sugar in a diabetic. In the same way the appearance of the athletes after the race, with muscular twitching, extreme pallor, cold, moist skin and nervous irritability, was like that of a patient who has had an overdose of insulin. The scientists interpret the findings as indicating that the normal supply of the reserve blood sugar in the body is insufficient for such a prolonged and violent effort...