Word: muscularly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Untalkative, small, muscular, shrewd, Zukor got along in the fur business. He and his partner, Morris Kohn, understood fur tradition?when a dealer tried to cheat them, one held him by the throat while the other ran to the bank to cash his check before he could stop payment. In 1897, surrounded by a tribal
...perfectly clear that the author's intention is to lay bare without any compromise the real significance of the story of Samson and Deliah. Not the moral side, however. He gives us the bald sexual narrative in all its conspicuousness. The sapping of the powerful muscular strength of the giant because of his infatuation for philistine women is hardly pleasant when the veil of old narrative in directness is stripped aside. Especially when...
During his Fletcherizing interval, Dr. Hoick found that his calory intake per day dropped from its previous 3,200 to 2,800, a condition probably due to the fact that so much munching made his mouth tired and reduced his appetite. His weight declined 30 pounds. His muscular endurance sank far down, as did his basal metabolism, and his efficiency upon the typewriter. His blood pressure, pulse, temperature, sleeping time, and ability in mental multiplication remained unchanged by Fletcherism. The only beneficial effect he found in Fletcherism was a marked increase in his ability to solve chess problems...
Last week, the best public linksters met on the Cobbs Creek course, Philadelphia. Police Lieut. Samuel Graham, muscular Pittsburgher, won the qualifying medal and was put out in the second round by a left-handed carpenter from Washington. But Carl F. Kauffmann, 32, dour-faced clerk, also of Pittsburgh, retained the championship which he won last year by defeating Philip Ogden of Cleveland in the finals...
...closest friends that he was on his way to see his son ride in the horse show at Geneva. He was a man too happy to commit suicide." Autopsy findings. ". . . many multiple fracture wounds, proving that the fall was from a great height ... no trace of drugs or poisons . . . muscular derangement . . . evidence that he was alive when he struck the water...