Word: muscularly
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Because he had been born with a superior quickness and accuracy of muscular response, he seemed for a while unbeatable. In 1893, 1894, 1896, 1897, he held the title. In 1894 a scorching Irishman named Goodbody beat the speedy Hovey, the rare Hobart, and Larned the Nonpareil, but when he met Wrenn he met his finish. In 1897 a strapping Englishman named Eaves (whose name, people said, was really Heaves), crossed the sea and beat the pride of the States, but Wrenn made him drop games like so many...
...Shore, between Canton and Shanghai, pirates were reported active. The legend of the "Pirate Queen," a muscular, almond-eyed, trouser-wearing female came to life. She and part of her polyandrian crew boarded the S.S. Kwanchung, seized it before it left Canton. At a prearranged point, they clambered to the bridge, poured fatal shot into four seamen. Their confederates came alongside, and presently the whole bottom including the Chinese Captain, two Chinese Christian preachers, 50 passengers, steamed to an unknown piratical cove. The Queen demands $120,000 ransom...
Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, who recently succeeded Samuel W. Reyburn as a Director of the Guarantee Trust Company, is tall, muscular, pale-eyed, with a long neck and sloping shoulders which are the despair of tailors but which served him well at Yale (1922) where he pulled a good oar, dabbled in writing, discussed aesthetic topics with his instructors in a modest yet eager fashion. He has good taste in pictures, attends the opera regularly...
...morning not long ago a college professor called on Dempsey at his hotel. He was Dr. Albert P. Sy, professor of anatomy at the University of Buffalo, and he asked the champion to come to the college and deliver a series of lectures on physical culture and muscular development...
...where they can "put their backs against the wall and face all comers, if comers there be; a place where they can recover some of the qualities which they have lost during their long years of suffering in many lands. It will give them an opportunity to practice the muscular trades, such as agriculture and carpentry, from which the Jews have been excluded for centuries. What the Jews need is more healthy, strong, and stabilizing occupations...