Word: muscularly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week a commission accountant and an engineer busily tried to make something out of the telephone company's books. Meanwhile, they had encountered a very rugged character named James Franklin ("Frank") Dees, proprietor of the firm. Aged 60, weighing 200 pounds, his muscular physique topped off by iron-grey hair, an engaging grin and keen brown eyes, Phoneman Frank Dees fought back with a counter-complaint. He asked for permission to raise his rates, discontinue the exchange at nearby Livingston, force subscribers to pay their phone bills. Snapped he: "The kind of service they're gettin...
Sister Kenny places a patient flat on his back on a firm mattress which does not quite reach to the footboard of his bed. The patient's feet, with heels and toes stretching beyond the mattress, are set squarely against the footboard. Thus he exercises the muscular reflexes used for standing up. His arms are kept at his side, his knees straight. No splints or casts are used. Hot packs made of pieces of blanket wrung out of boiling water are laid on his paralyzed limbs. The packs are usually changed every two hours, every half hour in very...
...corner of the Auditorium, a physician who studies Indian medicine had brought along a billowing squaw, complete in deerskin dress and feathered crown. In the rear, a couple of muscular orthopedists patiently kneaded the spines of lopsided patients, naked except for brief trunks. Other side shows showed how to resuscitate the newborn, diagnose female sterility, guard the health of airplane pilots, bandage broken legs, banish early syphilis in five days...
...said Hypnotist Andrew Salter of Manhattan last week, explaining in the Journal of General Psychology that 20 or 25% of normal adults can be hypnotized and can learn with little trouble to hypnotize themselves to produce the whole range of hypnotic phenomena-insensitivity to pain or noise, steely muscular rigidity, hallucinations, posthypnotic suggestion...
...Boca ("The Mouth"), a bedraggled, crowded, riverside quarter of corrugated iron shacks, docks, fish markets, is regarded by Porteños (colloquial for citizens of Buenos Aires) as the Montmartre of Buenos Aires. There, for many years, Quinquela Martín has painted La Boca's muscular sailors and barnacled boats, exhibiting his work in a little combination school and museum near his home. When, a few years ago, La Boca jocularly declared itself a republic, it elected First Citizen Quinquela Martín its president...