Word: armes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...much waiting. and the consequent great waste of time is done away with. The greatest good, however, is that the university crew is no longer molested by the class crews, but has a rowing room exclusively for its own use. Up to Monday the candidates were still rowing straight arm, the object at present being to get a good firm position and a proper use of body rather than to acquire any technicalities of the stroke. The name, weight, and a brief criticism of each man is here given...
...avoid over-exertion and broken bones, is an absurdity, but they may accept and profit by advice as to how best to develop their powers. Still, to these the monotony of the gymnasium will in the long run become irksome. The tennis player will admit that his right arm exceeds his left, without caring to correct it. He cannot correct it without taking time from his favorite game, and there by injuring his proficiency. Is it likely that he will make this sacrifice from an abstract love of the symmetrical? And is it reasonable to ask that he should? When...
...first and most marked changes produced upon the physique by the practice of athletics are shown in the weight, girth of chest, hips, thighs and arms, in breadth of shoulders and in the increased strength of all parts of the body, while the girth of the neck, waist and calves, the depth of chest and abdomen, the breadth of neck, waist and hips seem to respond more slowly. The total height is slightly increased, through increase in length of the lower extremities, but the sitting height and girth of head, knees, instep, waist and the length of upper arm...
...many exceptions, and the measurements have to be confirmed by an actual strength test. These trials were made by means of three spring-dynamometers, a spirometer, manometer, a pair of suspended rings and a set of parallel bars. The tests were limited to the back, legs, chest, upper arm and fore-arm. Before summing up the result of the arm of chest tests, the number of times that a person had lifted himself either way was multiplied into a tenth of his weight; the object being to credit each person with the number of foot pounds lifted, rather than...
...feature for base-ball players is a sliding glove to protect the arm of a player while running the bases. It is made of canvas bound with leather and fits over the arm from the wrist to above the elbow. - Yale News...