Word: relin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard engaged this promising "radical" to direct Hemenway Gymnasium. When he relin- quished the position, 40 years later, he had furnished the country with "chest weights" and other body-building machinery, had brought Harvard's strength-index up 25%, had introduced an "anthropometric" (strength-measuring) formula now in wide use, had supervised the physical education of scores of athletes and hundreds of gymnastic teachers...