Word: muscularly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before the Army's physical examiners in Manhattan young Dan Lurie unveiled the flabbergasting body that had won him the title of "Most Muscular Man in America" in 1942. Despite the fact that he could do 1,625 pushups, back to body building went Lurie, rejected for a slight heart murmur...
...Edward Otis Jr. is president of Indiana's Dodge Manufacturing Corp., makers of thousands of small precision parts for ships and planes. Last week, while many another businessman fretted over the strange, uncomfortable new world in which he found himself, smooth-thinking Otis sat down and wrote these muscular, unmincing words to his stockholders...
...Dark, muscular Sydney Robey Leib-brandt, German-descended South African, might have won the light-middleweight championship at Berlin's 1936 Olympics if he had not been too fascinated sightseeing to show up for the title bout...
...Bock, head of the Hygiene Department, and Dr. David B. Dill, now director of the Fatigue Lab, with their co-workers and under the leadership of the late Professor Lawrence J. Henderson, former director of the Lab, began the study of the normal human being's reactions to muscular exercise. They were aiming to use their findings principally in connection with industrial fatigue...
From these experiments, it was found that there is a definite relationship of the heart rate during and after muscular exercise to the ability of the subject to perform hard muscular work; the lower the heart rate, the greater the individual's ability...