Word: muscularity
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...consulted him, he found hardly one who had a sound heart. The heart had been overworked, had been compelled to pump the blood faster than it could bear, and its power as a heart was impaired for life. It was older than the rest of the body. All excessive muscular exertion makes mischief with young people, before the frame is hardened and compacted by time. The effects may not appear at once, but will remain in the fact of lessened powers, and premature age - or death. The growing use of what are called nervines or stimulants, will increase the tendency...
Here the ??? man was interrupted by some one who approached and asked him what he meant by spelling his name, which was Brown, in the more muscular fashion, Brawn. Henry did not wait to hear the answer to this dispute but hastened...
PRINCETON - Country College, run on the bloody shirt and muscular Christianity plan. Stands back from the main line of railroad, so that travellers may be free from injury by any of the numerous missiles always flying...
...cold night of last February in Appleton Chapel. It was a moving sight, - partly because they were obliged to walk about in order to keep warm. Doctor B-rt-l's "serene, saint-like face" was all aglow from the effects of a walk in the wind; whereas the muscular Christianity of Ph-ll-ps Br-ks was merely gently stimulated by the chilly atmosphere. Mr. J-mes T. F-lds had quite forgotten to follow T-nnys-n about and ask, "How do you feel now?" but stood shivering over a melancholy register, - not that of M-ses. Algernon...