Word: muscularity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Medical science has a jawbreaking name but no treatment and no sign of a cure for a mysterious wasting of the muscles. The disease called progressive muscular dystrophy is by no means rare: estimates of U.S. victims range from 100,000 to 200,000. Last week, the recently formed Muscular Dystrophy Association met in Manhattan, decided to try to raise $250,000, largely to push research by Dr. Ade T. Milhorat at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. Its slogan: "Give hope to the hopeless...
...little is known about muscular dystrophy that doctors cannot even agree on how many kinds there are. But two main types are recognized. The first attacks its victims in childhood, usually between the ages of three and six, and is transmitted through the mother by a recessive gene, nearly always to boys. Treacherous in its onset (seldom giving pain as a warning) and insidious in its advance as it weakens muscle after muscle, childhood dystrophy usually proves fatal before the 20th year...
Front-Office Punch. The man who made the Journal what it is today is Harry Johnston Grant, a square, muscular dynamo of a man with white hair and bloodshot blue eyes. An omnivorous reader, he is also an overpowering talker with a Walt Whitman-like flood of words (studded with four-letter ones) and a sincere belief that the successful operation of the paper is a public trust. He is purposely unknown to most Milwaukeeans. He declines most social invitations, has few friends, fearing that outsiders might try to influence the paper. He is also an enigma to most...
...West Coast the home-grown male often seems to run to an angular, muscular 6 ft. 3 in. 175-pounder who likes to lose himself in the anonymity of a number in an eight-oared shell. Each February hordes of them report to Washington Coach Al Ulbrickson and California's Ky Ebright; each June one or the other of the Western crews manages to give the East a rowing lesson. Only twice in the past 18 years has the West failed to win the big Intercollegiate Rowing Association regatta at Poughkeepsie...
...Bronx, learned about truffles in Italy, and has since imported truffle dogs to exploit the natural trufflries (usually oak forests) of New York and New Jersey. Truffle dogs, according to Robba, belong to no special breed. Dogs of mixed ancestry do as well as bluebloods, but such large, muscular breeds as German shepherds are apt to take off after rabbits. Much better are small, snuffly dogs with a good scent and a spirit of cooperation...