Word: muscularity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...epidemics,* the udder of the cow becomes infected from human hands, releasing a stream of contagion at every milking time. Most of the epidemics have occurred during the winter and spring months. Always they are explosive: a sudden appearance of sore throat throughout the community, accompanied by chilliness, headache, muscular soreness, nausea, vomiting. The glands of the throat swell up; complications as peritonitis, pneumonia, arthritis are not rare. The abrupt violence of the illness gives little scope for serum, and so far little success has been had with...
...newspapers made much of the luck of the crew of the Rofa. They said that it was a miracle for another ship to run across her in the middle of the ocean, and that miracles only happen when a woman is skipper. Meanwhile, Mrs. William Roos, 36, experienced and muscular skipper, was telling her rescuers : "I don't want this thing to be made sensational...
Last year George Remus, squat and muscular, got out of Atlanta Penitentiary after serving a short term for 'legging. He had made millions, had been caught, had got out. He suspected one Franklin L. Dodge Jr., a onetime U. S. Prohibition agent, of conspiring with Imogene Remus, his wife, to get his money and his life. Mrs. Remus and Dodge were paramours, Remus said. So, the morning Mrs. Remus started for court to press her divorce suit, George Remus drove alongside her car in a Cincinnati park, chased her across the grass, shot her dead. He was allowed...
...trial filled the press and three names filled the news. Most of all, Haywood, the thick-lipped, scarfaced, foul-mouthed friend to every man in the world who had to work like a slave; Darrow, the gentle, sorrowful, immensely kind, and immensely clever Chicago lawyer; and Borah, lofty, muscular, and furious, who hated Haywood not because he hated radicals, but because he thought Haywood had killed or helped to kill a brave and faithful...
That the heart is a muscular organ squeezing the blood forth when it contracts, resting quietly when it relaxes or swells (a complete contradiction of the idea prevailing in the days of the Stuarts). That the arteries carry bright scarlet blood, which has taken up air in its passage through the lungs, to every part of the body...