Word: muscularly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Since the war," complained a 22-year-old Tokyo girl, "we Japanese have been feeling no passion in our lives." Last week, the citizens of Tokyo felt a sort of patriotic passion for Konoshin Furuhashi, 19, a muscular, close-cropped literature student at Nippon University. In the all-Japan swimming championships at Meiji Shrine pool, Furuhashi thrashed out the 400-meter free style in 4:38.4, three-tenths of a second better than the world record set in 1934 by the U.S.'s Jack Medica. Supreme Command Allied Powers officials thought that Furuhashi's mark would be internationally...
...show were 134 oils, watercolors, sculptures and prints by artists of the "Old Northwest Territory" (Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin). Among the prizewinners: a windy, sunny street by veteran Chicago Impressionist Francis Chapin; a muscular tangle of nudes by Indiana's Earnest Freed, entitled Battle of the Sexes. First prize ($1,000) went to Cleveland's Dean Ellis, 27, for an encaustic cityscape which might well have been painted by Ellis' former teacher, Karl Zerbe (TIME...
...helped the U.S. General Staff work out plans to repel an invasion from Canada by 300,000 British regulars.) But even when it is up to no good, Colonel McCormick's xenophobic "World's Greatest Newspaper" is one of the last, anachronistic citadels of muscular personal journalism...
Both the new headmasters are practicing partisans of the kind of muscular Christianity for which the independent schools have long been famed. St. John prepped at Choate (six St. Johns have taught there), played hockey for Yale, was ordained an Episcopal priest, served as a Navy lieutenant commander (civil affairs) in Europe. He returned to Choate to take up "teaching and preaching...
Taking over where they left off in 1943, the muscular Bunnies of Leverett House emerged yesterday as the recipients of the annual Straus Trophy, awarded annually to the winner of the year-long intramural competition in 13 major and minor sports...