Word: muscularly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Dr. Carl Koller, 86, eye specialist, first doctor to use cocaine as a local anesthetic; in Manhattan. In 1884 Koller collaborated with the late, great Sigmund Freud in testing cocaine's influence on muscular strength, digressed to try the drug on an animal's eye, soon demonstrated the boon in many operations...
Movie magazines have been aghast for the past month or so over the advertisements for "Lady in the Dark,"--the first ones in which Ginger Rogers has allowed her rather muscular legs to be shown to the non-paying public. But the movie itself, despite the lure of Miss Rogers' technicolor outfit and the legs, does not have nearly the punch which was supplied by the stage play of the same name...
...broke the 10?-top-price tradition back in 1932, found that this backbreaking upshove in gross was not enough. Woolworth profits sank to $21,952,000 v. $23,539,000 in 1942. General Electric fared little better. It announced a record volume of $1,300,000,000, up a muscular 39%, but saw profits ease...
...Diabetics fall into two rough groups, the thin, muscular ones and the fat ones. The doctors found that 88% of the thin ones had an acute form of the disease and were hard to regulate on insulin. Of the fat ones, 88% had a mild form of diabetes, were easily adjusted on insulin...
...senior year he was All-Southern tackle, and still has the bodily grace of muscular self-control. He has what baseball people call "a good pair of hands" -large, capable, well-coordinated. He talks with few gestures, but his speech is superb in exactness, his voice even but never monotonous. When he dresses a man down, there is no profanity, no shouting, not even the chill look of traditional military anger. But his ire burns like hell. These personal explosions of his are rarely and consciously utilized tools: he can turn them on & off like a spigot...