Word: muscularity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...baseball game between the staffs of our estimable contemporaries, the Harvard CRIMSON and the Daily Princetonian, if not definitely settling the question of muscular supremacy between their respective institutions, at least demonstrated the amazing fact that undergraduates of the two universities represented are still capable of competing against each other without bloodshed or even injured feelings. In fact, so delighted were the editors at this discovery that each publication has since suggested and urged the renewal of official athletic relations between their universities...
...Harvard oarsmen will have an opportunity tomorrow both in the morning and the afternoon to become accustomed to the conditions prevailing on the river and work out any muscular kinks acquired during the journey...
...hurrying back to his duties, President Coolidge discovered that a sea elephant is just an overgrown species of seal (Mirounga leonina), carnivorous, mammalian, with a flexible proboscis (not nearly so long as the land elephant's), wiry whiskers, hind limbs so rudimentary as to look like a big, muscular tail; broad, flat, forward flippers for swimming and spanking its young. While President Coolidge watched, John Ringling's sea elephant gladly devoured 50 Ibs. of fish...
Bushy of hair, muscular of body (which once was puny), Mr. Macfadden has long been proud of himself and his magazines. Recently he circulated among advertisers the information that last summer he made a speech in the British House of Commons and had dinner with a couple of lords...
...minute portion of U. S. womanhood which is diligently muscular looks forward to a trip abroad this summer. For the first time in the history of athletics events for women* will be included in the track and field program of the Olympic Games...