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... girth, the stride of an athlete, tempered by the slight roundness of those same shoulders, the non-expansiveness of chest, and the heavy tread of the large man whose strength and physique have been acquired at manual labour instead of in athletics. A figure more common east of ...

— The Return of Peter Grimm - Novelised From the Play • David Belasco

... life at Newnham College. After the tripos excitements, some of the students leave their dream-world of study and talk of "cocoas" and debates and athletics to begin their work in the real world. Men students play their part in the story, and in the closing chapters it is suggested that marriage has its place ...

— Condemned as a Nihilist - A Story of Escape from Siberia • George Alfred Henty

... more civilized they grow the more they will let their bodies deteriorate. They will let their shoulders stoop, their lungs shrink, and their stomachs grow fat. No other species will be quite so deformed and distorted. Athletics they will watch, yes, but on the whole sparingly practise. Their snuffy old scholars will even be proud to decry them. Where once the simians swung high through forests, or scampered like deer, their descendants will plod ...

— This Simian World • Clarence Day

... Cartilage (Fig. 86).—The medial meniscus exhibits undue mobility much more frequently than the lateral, and the condition is usually met with in adult males who engage in athletics, or who follow an employment which entails working in a kneeling or squatting position for long periods, with the toes turned outwards—for example, coal-miners. The tibial collateral ligament, and through it the coronary ligament, ...

— Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition. • Alexander Miles

... large to small muscles, which lasts until adolescence, is established. Then disproportion between function and growth often causes symptoms of chorea. The chief danger is arrest of the development and control of the smaller muscles. Many occupations and forms of athletics, on the contrary, place the stress mainly upon groups of fundamental muscles to the neglect of finer motor possibilities. Some who excel in heavy athletics no doubt coarsen their motor reactions, become not only inexact and heavy but ...

— Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene • G. Stanley Hall

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