Word: muscularly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...affinities to man." Broom thinks the Kromdraai ape man may be a survivor of forms out of which man sprang a million years ago. The new anklebone, small compared with the skull, leads Broom to believe that Kromdraai's large brain would not have been required for his "muscular economy" and "was partly used for thinking...
...Fear is not something "in the mind." It has bodily symptoms which can be recognized in time to exercise control. Most common: pounding heart and rapid pulse (69%), muscular tenseness (45%), a "sinking feeling in the stomach" (44%), dry mouth (33%), clammy hands (22%). Least common are some legendary signs of fear: involuntary urination (6%) and defecation (5%), vomiting and fainting (under...
From his Hobart College days, Pardue has set an example of muscular Christianity. In 1919, he was the A.A.U.'s Middle Western breaststroke champion. He still goes almost daily for a half-hour splash in the Buffalo Athletic Club's pool. His wife (Dorothy Klotz) won Grantland Rice's rating of third best woman golfer in the U.S. in 1928. In all his parishes he has pushed amateur athletics...
Dean Pardue is also an exponent of muscular literature. He is responsible for two popular war books. In his congregation last Christmas Eve was Johnny Bartek, the "praying corporal" who was with Eddie Rickenbacker when their plane-crashed in the Pacific Ocean last year. The Dean got Bartek to tell him the story of the party's 21 days on a raft, and Pardue wrote it under the title Life Out There. It was also Pardue who suggested to Colonel Robert L. Scott that he write his experiences as one of General Chennault's aces. Result: the best...
...China theater was still 15,000 miles from home. Across the supply line that could make the air war big, muscular and effective, still lay the enemy in Burma, the Himalayas to the west. China would have to wait, but China could wait. No one knew that better than Claire Chennault and his dust-caked...