Word: muscularity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...continued excess of imports over exports has at length roused II Duce to legislate frugality upon his people. He is himself, un uomo magro (a lean man), a man who is "fit." Less wine and more coarse flour will toughen jovial Italian paunches into the likeness of his own muscular diaphragm. Less gasoline will be imported, less white flour, less newspaper pulp, less superfluous building material...
...result of maldevelopment or of various contagious diseases?tonsillitis, measles, whooping cough. Cure is usually effected by quiet surroundings, rest in bed, full diet with plenty of fatty ingredients (milk, eggs), and above all the eliminating of the causative conditions. Relapses occur?the signs of trembling, twitching, dancing, muscular incoordination often reappear at the end of an exhausting school semester...
...permanent peace rests with Sears Ripley, a devoted, sensitive widower, who brings it to pass by being not only patient and understanding but sufficiently muscular to carry her up to bed when, heavy with their first child, she is on the point of wishing she were a mooncalf again instead of a daughter and mother of her persistent species...
...staple goods, a staple price; each and every one costs two dollars. If you have not chosen yet, ask that newsdealer to hand you Rodomont (Putnam) by H. Bedford-Jones. Therein two shrewd and muscular sons of American forests swash and buckle about the craggy slopes of Mont St. Michel in the days of Louis XIV. Ham and eggs? Not precisely, but the same principle...
...latter two and going in a sort of band from the speech centre to the top of the lobe are successively the centres of the face, the arms, the trunk, the legs, the feet. Then comes a large fissure (or sulcus) immediately back of which are the cutaneous and muscular sensory. Dropping to the ear region one finds the large higher auditory centre. At the top of the lobe and a little back of centre is the stereognostic, whereat the brain recognizes the nature of solid bodies through the widely diffused sense of touch. At the hind...