Word: sweated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German attitude toward the Spanish Revolution (see p. 18). Hour and a half before sailing time, there was a sudden burst of firecrackers outside the Bremen's pier. In unison 150 men & women, attired in evening dress and stationed about the decks, stripped off their coats, displayed white sweat shirts on which was splotched in red paint: END NAZI WAR MOVEMENTS DOWN WITH NAZI INTERVENTION IN SPAIN. Anti-Nazi pamphlets were handed out to astonished passengers...
...Marshes about 50 miles south of Rome, a district infested for centuries with malaria but now ditched, drained, booming and blooming. Arriving at a Pontine farm which he helped sow with wheat last year, the Dictator last week pitched in under a broiling sun and helped thresh. Afterward, with sweat pouring down his dust-begrimed face, Thresher Mussolini presented his work slip for an hour's labor, drew the regulation five lire...
Preacher. Up to the microphones broad-shouldered, coatless, clutching a Bible in his left hand, stepped the Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith, claimant to the leadership of 6,000,000 Share-Our-Wealthers left him by the late Huey Long. Sweat streamed off his broad face, plastered his shirt against his barrel chest as he swung into his harangue. No mild economic creed was his but a rousing call to arms. Too long, he shouted, had the plain people of the U. S. let Wall Street and Tammany rule them...
...boat through a manhole into a sewer main, paid out 500-ft. of flexible steel cable attached to the stern of the punt. Thus insured against immediate catastrophe, Mr. Brown sculled into the hot and humid black stink. Two hours later he was hoisted out of the manhole, oozing sweat and four pounds lighter...
Since President Roosevelt popularized swimming pools for victims of infantile paralysis, and hydrotherapy has become a major activity of physiotherapists, special occupational ailments have become prevalent among those technicians. They must accompany patients in warm pools. Warm water makes them lose a pound of sweat during a two-to-three hour treatment. It also lowers their blood pressure. Chlorine, essential to sterilize the pools in which the sick bathe, causes a skin irritation which is almost impossible to cure unless the physiotherapist keeps, out of the water entirely. If the patient exercises alone in a small raised pool, the attendant...