Word: stamina
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...expert skier, and skiing is one of the few sports at which women become expert. Discouraged from jumping (too dangerous) and cross-country running (too tiring), women have adopted the most becoming ski sport: downhill racing. Even so, whooshing down a mountainside at 40 m.p.h. requires steel nerves, stamina, split-second thinking. Not by seconds but by fractions of seconds are races often won & lost...
...ability to fly hard & fast in World War I, the U.S. decorated "Tooey" Spaatz with a D.S.C.; for stamina in commanding the record-breaking endurance flight of the Question Mark in 1929, he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. Within the last year the Army has assigned him three big jobs...
...This Government will put its trust in the stamina of the American people.... We must be set to face a long war against crafty and powerful bandits....It will not only be a long war, it will be a hard...
...paper-shuffling, has long left the actual administration of the Department to his chief aide, Sumner Welles. And Cordell Hull may choose not to retire. But even if Welles never becomes Secretary, he will still hold his present power: through Presidential choice, his own ability, background and natural stamina, he is the chief administrative officer of U.S. foreign policy. In the War of Brains, he is a field marshal...
...greatest physical stamina: about 6. In all children, the onset of adolescence causes a tremendous physical strain. From the age of 13 on, the physical efficiency of women does not increase, may even decline. Girls of 18 were exhausted by the 600-yard run, although children of 6 took it in their stride. The physical efficiency of boys continues to rise after 13 but at a much slower rate than before. "An important biologic hint: during puberty, unnecessarily strenuous activities such as rigid drill . . . must be avoided...