Meaning of body-builder | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Something that is beneficial to the body.
2. One who builds vehicle bodies.

Examples

“An excellent example, showing the possibility of the development of the muscles of the back, which are commonly neglected, is that of Professor Robert J. Roberts, the noted body-builder now connected with the gymnasium of the Young Men’s Christian Association of Boston.”

“The Gymnasium prospectus may have reached you before this meets your eye; at all events we hope you will give it a careful perusal, and mentally resolve to join the host of body-builders that is growing in numbers every day.”

“Leonard DaLuz, a 26-year-old muscular body-builder, was crowned “Mr. Rock Hill” to highlight the 1961 Rock Hill Weight Lifting Championships and physique contest Saturday night at the Stadium Hut.”

“AMONG the muscular body-builders in the first-floor Newcastle gymnasium, Neville Jason, dark, slim and smelling just slightly of after shave, looked very out of place.”

“Compare him to Christopher Reeve of the modern Superman movies, who was sculpted like a body-builder.”

“Do not imagine I am not in sympathy with the game. I am, most heartily, with this and most out-of-door sports. I am only combating a prevailing belief that they are beneficial body-builders.”

“It is not a drug; it is a pre-digested food, and is absorbed at once. Strength, plumpness and digestive tone follows its use immediately. It is a body-builder, pleasant to the taste, and soon enables you to digest any food.”

““The office of the gymnasium,” says Mr. Richards in the September Century, “is two-fold, educational and sanative. It is not primarily a place of exploits nor designed for teaching dangerous feats of skill. Its chief end is educational. The term, ‘body-builder,’ largely employed by the best instructors, well describes its main purpose.””

“Angier’s Petroleum Emulsion / It is a body-builder and a disease-destroyer.”

“Sleep is the great physician—the body-builder, the nerve-bracer, the brain-clearer; […]”

“The members of the various classes, under Professor Schatzel’s direction, have been getting in shape for some time, in order to acquit themselves in the best possible manner for the event, and the exhibition Monday evening is intended to show to the public just what the gymnasium can do as a body-builder, and the exercises which are practiced to develop the muscles, and put them in a healthy condition.”

“Sandow Recommends / The Whitely Exerciser as the best body-builder and health preserver.”

“If you have a cough that threatens weak lungs or bronchitis, take the sure remedy, Angier’s Petroleum Emulsion, called the Pleasant Food-medicine. It is the greatest cough-stopper, lunch-strengthener and body-builder known.”

“What can stop the wasting and replace the loss? Scott’s Emulsion of Cod-liver Oil, with the Hypophosphites of lime and soda. It is a body-builder. It is the essence of the elements and principles that feed, nourish, reconstruct.”

“Nothing is so useful as a body-builder as Cod Liver Oil, but alas, how many are nauseated and upset at the very thought of it.”

“Made from pure grains it is a true food and body-builder as well as a delightful and healthful beverage.”

“The chief divisions of food, viz., vitalizers, heaters and muscle makers, are found in the seeds. The roots and leaves furnish the waste. The fruits are the eliminators of the body, while, as we have said, the seeds are the body-builders.”

“The element which we call albumen is the body-builder par excellence of all the foods.”

“In the ordinary life and operations of the body we find our foods capable of being divided into the “body-builders” and the “force-producers”; and, so far, the parallel between the engine and ourselves holds good.”

“Dr. Miles’ New Heart Cure strengthens and regulates the action of the heart while it stimulates the stomach and digestive organs to make rich, red, vitalizing blood, which adds strength to brain, muscle and tissue. It is a great body-builder.”

“A sure body-builder for children (or adults) is Grape-Nuts, the famous ready-cooked food, and there is a reason.”

“The drinks and foods that give the most real pleasure are body-builders as well as palate-ticklers.”

“It is a healer, body-builder and strength-maker beyond rivalry or comparison.”

“If the fact were better known that cured prunes take in a large measure the place of meat as a body-builder, and that in addition they possess remarkable medicinal properties, the consumption of the California product would be immeasurably increased and there would be no difficulty in disposing of every crop, however large, at prices much higher than those which now obtain.”

“A good many people have been saying to druggists that they wanted to try our Renovator, and wasn’t there a smaller size than $1 bottle? We know if the Renovator was given a trial, it would surely prove its body-building qualities, so now every one who feels the need of a strengthening, invigorating body-builder can buy it for 50¢ […] It is the greatest body-builder of today.”

“WANTED, a good BODY-BUILDER and WHEEL-WRIGHT.”

“He was a body-builder by trade, and was apprenticed to Mr. Hornsby, at Grantham, and was making his way to Bury to try and get work at Mr. Boby’s; […]”

“WANTED—A BODY-BUILDER—STEADY EMployment given to a competent man”

“WANTED—ONE BLACKSMITH ON SPRING-wagon and buggy work and repairing; one body-builder; a good draughtsman on buggy and light-carriage work.”

“CARRIAGE AND WAGON BODY-BUILDERS”

“I have in employ a first-class carriage ironer,a No. 1 body-builder, and the very best of carriage trimmers.”

“WANTED—ONE BODY-BUILDER AND ONE gearing-maker, immediately, at GEO. H. YOUNG & CO.”

“WANTED—No. 1 carriage-maker; body-builder preferred; steady employment. A. I. Simpson, 1409—1411 Dodge st., Omaha, Neb.”

“WANTED — PASSENGER-CAR HANDS, &c.—Passenger-car body-builders, cabinet makers and good house carpenters can secure steady employment on application at the Ohio Falls Car Company, Jeffersonville, Ind.”

“The wages of the blacksmiths working for B. Manville & Co. were cut recently, and this week the body-builders were notified that they were to suffer the 10 per cent reduction.”

“The blacksmiths and body-builders of the Manville Carriage Manufactory at New Haven, Conn., were notified that there would be a reduction of ten per cent. in wages.”

“BODY-BUILDER — First-class carriage body-builder. Address MORSE & BRENNECKE, Altoona, Penn.”

“CAR-BUILDERS—At once, at the Ohio Falls Car Works, Jeffersonville, Ind., good coach body-builders and men familiar with putting up inside [?] in passenger cars.”

“Yesterday morning’s conference between the piece-workers and Manager Sessions convinced the body-builders and finishers that half a loaf is better than no bread, and they signified their willingness to resume work on Monday at the new rate of wages.”

“At the completion of the bottom of a car, which comprises the work of the bottom-builders, it is turned over to the body-builders, who put up the frame work and complete the body of the car, their work consisting of applying posts, bracing, filling, belt railing, paneling, car-lining, etc.”

“WANTED—CAR BODY-BUILDERS AND inside finishers. Apply Canadian General Electric Co., Peterboro, Ont.”

“Second, the body-builders put up the studding and inclose the car except the roof.”

“SITUATION WANTED BY A YOUNG EXPERIenced wheelwright and body-builder in a shop where he can get chance to learn blacksmithing, of which he has some experience; city or country. Inquire Chicago Hotel.”

“As soon as they have laid the sills and finished the skeleton structure for the body-builders, they busy themselves with putting on the brakes.”

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