Word: muscularly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Angeles the "Red Squad" is not a body of Communist storm troops but a group of muscular policemen who go about the city discouraging radical agitation. Last week the Red Squad permitted William Zebulon Foster, Communist candidate for President of the U. S., to utter the first eleven words of a campaign speech to 1,000 partisans assembled on the Plaza. Week prior the police had broken up a Communist meeting, shot one Comrade...
...sports, javelin, discus, hammer throwing, shot putting and archery cause a lopsided muscular development. The recent War rationalized shot putting and discus throwing for grenade throwing. Cudgeling and knifing, which have not survived as warlike sports, were also useful. But not archery or javelin throwing...
...intellectual gourmandizing, but there is some substantiation for the belief that it arose from the continued urban existence of a large part of the country. There is nothing natural about city life in America today. All entertainment is artificial, it can be obtained with no more effort than the muscular activity involved in loosening the purse strings. Theatres, dances, movies, speakeasies, tabloids, all the conventional forms of amusement are at the beck and call of every man. His mind is a blank screen upon which no impressions are made; his intellect has been allowed to lie fallow for years. Beyond...
...cause of science by allowing experts from the Medical School to take samples of his blood while he is relaxed and then while he is in the heat of competition, it was learned yesterday. The corpuscular composition of the blood is believed to undergo some slight transformation under muscular and emotional stress and the medical authorities are trying to ascertain this change with Wood as the specimen. Wood has submitted to these blood tests after the football games this fall and now is giving samples of his blood after the hockey tilts...
Germany happened to prove fertile ground for the Wigman idea. The formal ballet never flourished there as it did in Russia and France. The average German is ungraceful and the Wigman doctrine demanded less grace than it did muscular control carried to scientific perfection. Her cult, called tanz gymnastik, spread wholesale among housewives and factory workers who found the exercise profitable. Wigman ideas were modified and taught in the public schools. The Wigman Central Institute in Dresden was subsidized for a time by the Federal Government. Unauthorized groups have used the name of Wigman in Boston, Cleveland and Seattle...