Word: muscularly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...small they must be viewed through a microscope. Fine glass needles are so arranged in the instrument that a coarse movement of the hand lever registers only the slightest motion in the needles. The worker can actually touch the nerves of tiny cells with his instrument and watch the muscular reaction...
...dreary game of platting has begun, so that the 200 need never set out through the mud. But within the lineaments of this small gimcrack may be discerned what is a very real and very large deficiency in the National Recovery Administration--its distressing lack of coordination, its undeniable muscular ague. Banking recovery has lagged so far behind industrial stimulus as to produce a dangerous gap in credit; Mr. Ickes, in however small a way, is flying directly in the face of economic reason, and building for us bathos. Let the errant horses be yoked to the plow...
Throwing axes at logs "is convenient, interesting and effective, for it brings into operation nearly all muscular groups in the body. It requires a stance and gives a twist to the torso which is most effective in subduing an uproarious waistline...
Major General Preston Brown, commander of the Panama Canal, to succeed General Parker in the Chicago area. An efficient "old school" soldier, General Brown is blunt, baldpated, muscular. Son of an Army colonel, he went to Yale, got his appointment to West Point while serving as an enlisted man in the regular army. His successor in the Panama Department is Major General Harold Benjamin Fiske who was last week promoted from brigadier and shifted from command of the Atlantic sector to command of the whole department. Large-boned, calm Major General Ed- win Baruch Winans, sportsman and socialite, commander...
...Vines's, is equally dependable. With slower ground strokes than most first-rate U. S. tennists, and less style than most Englishmen, who play as though the net were a mirror, Crawford has an energetic steadiness that depresses his opponents, a tireless ability to play his positive, muscular shots, not for aces but for errors. The most unusual thing about Crawford on a tennis court is his flat-topped, thick-framed 14-oz. racquet, shaped like the racquets that were fashionable before the War. The fact that the name of Crawford's racquet is Alexander sometimes leads people...