Word: sweated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Erhard had taken himself to a Finnish sauna at a Black Forest resort last week to sweat off some of his 240 Ibs. in the steam bath and to be worked over by his masseur. The phone call was from Chancellor Adenauer in Bonn. Wrapping a towel around his midriff, the professor padded to a dressing-room telephone...
...farm animals. Purdue University has a $700,000 climate-control program in which, among other things, pigs take regular shower baths. Says Animal Science Professor Frederick N. Andrews: "Pigs do not wallow in mud because they like to be dirty. They wallow in mud because they have no sweat glands to keep them cool." With daily or even hourly shower baths, meticulous regulation of the temperature, humidity and even the air movement around them for each day of their lives, Purdue's hogs grow on less feed, gain 1¾ Ibs. per day, compared...
...teachers, who are not in all respects exactly like the rest of us. The complicated plot concerns a disreputable lawyer who cheats others and who is himself cheated, and never would intrigue have been less intriguing, except for an excellent actor by the name of John Casey. Mr. Casey sweats not, neither does he strain. He plays the shifty Patelin as one of those people who, when they are not leaning against something, contrive somehow to appear to be leaning against themselves; relaxed, charming, and funny. William D. Gordy has directed a cheerful and reasonably no-sweat performance, punctuated with...
...what he devised himself into a rigorous physical education program that all Yale swimmers must undergo before they take to the water for serious workouts. Under Kiphuth's direction, they work for weeks on weights and pulleys in Yale's immense Payne Whitney Gymnasium ("the Temple of Sweat...
...sadder milestone faces Kiphuth. He has reached Yale's mandatory retirement age of 68, will be forced to retire at the end of this season. Phil Moriarty. a trusted assistant for more than a quarter-century, will succeed him. To Yale swimmers, the Temple of Sweat will never be quite the same again...