Word: muscularity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Seven non-smokers and nine smokers (university students) were tested for three hours on 18 consecutive days, on some of which they smoked actual tobacco before the tests, and on others only the "control." The tests included pulse beat, motor control (absence of tremors), tapping of a telegraph key, muscular fatigue, cancellation of letters for alertness and accuracy, memory span for digits, speed and accuracy in performing addition, reaction time to short, familiar words displayed, and facility in learning to associate symbols and nonsense syllables. To summarize the results, the tobacco smoking tended "to retard and to disturb intellectual processes...
Carl Fischer is a student at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathy. The muscular training of his adopted line of healing apparently stood his wrists in good stead last week, for he won the Intercollegiate tennis championship at the Merion Cricket Club, Philadelphia. The runner-up was Gerald B. Emerson of Columbia. The score...
...matter of fact, does vitality bear any direct relation to physical vigor? Medical science has not yet furnished a sure prescription for longevity, and centenarians are not necessarily persons distinguished for muscular development in their youth. Coddling the human race in such manner as to "keep alive the weaklings much longer than they would live normally" may, after all, be the best means of increasing the general duration of life. New York World...
...second defect is to be found in all the prose in varying degree. There is faulty observation both in imitating nature and in checking up descriptions with the action throughout the story. At the age of sixty-five the alertness of the short, muscular cabinet-makers is questionable. In one place Mr. Hooker's workshop is "small" and yet, later on, Mr. Collision spends half-an-hour in its nooks and corners dragging out furniture. Mr. Hooker needed the space below for his cabinet-making and the same amount of time spent in the attic better fits the picture...
...play on the football field,--existed. He further perfects the control of mind over muscle and nerves. On the physical side, the football players develops in a perfectly normal way every single muscle which he uses in every day life and in almost exactly the manner in which the muscular system is called upon in cases where quick or unusual action is essential...