Word: stamina
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From 176,000 entries the Imperial Rule Assistance Association chose as a slogan to stir Japanese fighting forces now in their eighth year of war: Iki, Waki, Konki, Sookekki (spirit, harmony, stamina, total action...
...altitude fliers and factory workers also have their uses as guinea pigs. After long study of fatigue in factory and flight, Drs. Hudson Hoagland and Gregory Pincus of the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology last week reported in Science that a hormone-like substance called pregnenolone greatly increases human stamina, not only in the air but at ground level. Unlike most artificial stimulants, pregnenolone apparently has no harmful after effects...
...hormones known as 17-ketosteroids (containing one oxygen and 17 carbon atoms). They are discharged in the urine. The investigators discovered that the output of ketosteroids (and of urine) rose in direct proportion to fatigue and loss of efficiency. There was wide variation among individuals; those with the greatest stamina showed the smallest secretion of ketosteroids...
...Pincus thought that fatigue might be reduced by feeding men a steroid substance to counteract their losses. They found that pregnenolone, a synthetic steroid, seemed to do the trick. They have not determined just how it works, but when 50 milligrams of pregnenolone were given per day, efficiency and stamina generally improved...
...Crises. Today, says Noel Busch, the President is, if not quite in top form, still on his game. "Polite and assured, full of seasoned stamina and lively as a cricket, he seems still quite ready to enjoy a series of new and even-more-exciting crises. Sitting with a caller in his upstairs study he sometimes pushes his freewheeling chair back from his cluttered desk and sits still for a minute chewing reflectively on the tip of his cigaret holder. At such moments the deep lines in Roosevelt's face suggest that he is listening to some sound that...