Word: muscularity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since she was born 20 years ago, Sylva Eugenie Davis of Kansas City has not been able to use her arms or legs. The nerve tracts in the neck region of her spinal cord were injured at birth, causing spastic paralysis (muscular rigidity). But Sylva was endowed with high courage. She learned to read, turned the pages of her books with her tongue. She used a typewriter by poking the keys with a pencil held between her teeth. With a brush between her teeth she tinted photographs, made drawings. She was careful of her appearance, applied her own cosmetics...
...Colonel Hugh Scott, chief of the hospital staff, diagnosed as follows: "The tick-tock is caused when he moves a certain muscle in his palate. The movement of the palatal muscle carries the sound through the Eustachian tube to the middle ear.'' The muscular agitation in the roof of Veteran Hester's mouth appeared to be semivoluntary or hysterical in character, somewhat like hysterical paralysis which immobilizes an arm or leg although there is nothing organically wrong. There was some evidence that Veteran Hester could start or stop the muscular ticking at will. He was therefore advised...
...world at large Finland, home of honest muscular seamen, has been more famous for her athletes than for her salons. But Tavasts and Karelians (all Finns are one or the other) point with greater pride to Finland's world's champion literacy record, boast that, except for 0.9% every last Finn today can read and write, exhibit Modernist Architect Eliel Saarinen as world evidence of Finnish culture. If you were to ask on the streets of a U. S. city who was the outstanding modern Finn, chances are the reply would be: Paavo Nurmi. But if you asked...
...sugary as Shirley, and has more to offer than a round face and big eyes. Her voice, accompanied by the muscular hands, waving mane, and symphonic orchestra of Leopold Stowkowski, is at times actually thrilling, but always tried a little beyond its range. Her acting, when she isn't singing, compares favorably with that of her Hollywood contemporaries, although little "nous ne savons quois" here and there point to over directing...
...about the body's mechanisms for mitigating heat and cold-that is, to establish the temperature zones in which various reactions occur. Every morning one or the other arrived at the laboratory at 9 o'clock, without breakfast, and undressed slowly to avoid dissipating heat because of muscular exertion. Then he entered a calorimeter, an insulated cabinet in which the temperature could be controlled over a range of 72° to 96°, and in which the amount of heat radiated by the naked body could be measured. Findings...