Word: muscularly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scientists have long sought a means of doubling the endurance of athletes, soldiers, tired business men without resorting to harmful stimulants. Key chemical which staves off muscular fatigue is glycine, one of the 14 amino acids necessary for life. But doctors cannot prescribe pure glycine for this purpose because it is nauseating...
...most striking thing in Mr, Rubenstein is the three-dimensional solidity of his bodies. It is evident in his muscular studies, as "Thor" and "Hand Grenade Throwers," and in the fine plastic anatomy of his faces, particularly "Negro's Head" where greatest strength is centered in the eyes. His sense of line is splendid. It is strong, almost fiercely so, in his pastels, but more subtle and still as effective in such drawings as "Gobs." The two sailors with hands in pocket at the lower left and the pugnacious face at top-center are marvels of characterization. In that native...
...alert physician and a bevy of nurses standing by like eagle-eyed engineers, he will learn that one may be kept from "tossing about in the throes of sleep" until he may hatch out a whole dozen eggs "scrambling" nary a one, and no "marvel" at all. "This astonishing muscular control" will be completely and expertly accomplished by said means...
What manner of man is he? How did he keep himself from tossing about in the throes of sleep and scrambling the egg ? To what does TIME attribute this astonishing muscular control? From all appearances it would seem that Mr. Ryder is better fitted to show the public "How to Sleep" than Robert Benchley...
Cardiac asthma, which has no relation to true or bronchial asthma, sometimes occurs with arteriosclerosis, is characterized by a sudden rise in blood pressure, frantic gasping for breath, and frequent attacks of coughing. He was afflicted with myocarditis (inflammation of the muscular walls of the heart), and by this time his entire circulatory system was breaking down...