Word: artful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...should row, wrestle, run, swing on the bars, and, by all means, use dumb bells and Indian clubs. It was Dr. Franklin's opinion that walking is the best form of exercise, but the doctor was not familiar with the light shells and the sliding-seat of the modern art of rowing. Moreover he was merely recommending to his son, the governor of New Jersey, a course of life that would make his heart and stomach perform their functions healthily. Whatever may be the one best form of exercise, if a person is to have only one, it is certainly...
...efforts of the boxers are directed to hard hitting rather than to the practice of the nice points of attack and defence. The fighters and the spectators are more delighted by a blow that draws blood than by the most skilful pass or parry. Slugging is the modern art. Boxing in public is not an exhibition of the art which gentlemen practice for the development of the body and to stimulate the energies of the mind. In slugging matches two brutes stand up and try to disfigure each other, and when the blood flows or when a man is knocked...
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