Word: muscular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Medical School next month, it was announced last night. Sir Charles, who is lecturing under the Edward K. Durham Foundation, will speak on October 10 on "Observation on Stretch Reflexes," on October 13 on "Modes of Interaction between Reflexes," and on October 17 on "Some Factors of Coordination in Muscular Acts." The lectures will be at 5 o'clock...
...readers were thus assured that Channel-swimming would not be a headline craze again this summer. Miss Ederle, now appearing in "small-time" U. S. vaudeville, and other swimmers may have felt vexed at the "fickleness" of public interest. But beside scientific travel over a whole ocean, for example, muscular travel across a 20-mile tide race seemed to have shrunk to the proportions of a frog beside an eagle...
...this battle for records and for the National A. A. U. one-mile championship, Miss Norelius was seldom more than a muscular forearm ahead of her teammate, Ethel McGary of the Women's Swimming Association of New York...
...Sinclair Lewis surpasses Dillwyn Parrish's subtly corrosive pictures of fleshy Fred Rain painting his bathroom while trying not to marry; fouling his straight young son's mind with a circumlocution on sex in flowers; preparing stuffy sermons in his smug study. Not "Old Jud" himself, the muscular college revivalist of Elmer Gantry, is more offensive than Fay Johnson, the Y.M.C.A. hearty of this book...
Since the bathwomen speak no English and are usually, large, muscular, and determined to earn their rightful tip, most of them dealt with bashful delegates in the manner of a large policeman upholding the majesty of law and custom...