Word: backed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Stroke swings back too far. On the full reach he swings down after he has slid out, letting his outside shoulder come forward. No. 7 starts fairly quickly, but he does not keep his slide under control and rushes down. He makes a break in the middle of his stroke after his legs are straight and before he pulls his hands in, so that there is no power in the middle of his stroke. No. 6 is slow in starting for ward. he lets his legs wobble, and does not sit up to his work. He hurries his finish...
...signers of the prayer petition also signed the address of the committee. 17 men signed the petition negatively, and 143 sent back cards unsigned. The petition will come before the Corporation, March...
...wages, emphasizing their demands, when he was disposed to be less generous than they wished, by furnishing such poor food at the table presided over by him that the guests rose in rebellion. He was forbidden to talk to any of the guests and ordered to keep in the back part of the house. It is to be presumed that next season he will seek some more congenial field, perhaps a Maine hay field. Then again, to form the habit of the lackey by living on fees, is mentally if not financially belittling, unless one is bent on purely psychological...
...diaphragm, which is the principal agent in drawing air into the lungs. The enlargement of the pleura forces the air out of the air cells, thin walls are brought into contact with each other, and the whole lung in an airless condition may be pressed into the back part of the chest alongside of the back bone, where it lies as useless, as far as breathing is concerned, as a strip of leather. The same results may follow from the destruction of the elastic fibre of the lung, which takes such an active share in driving out the air expiration...
Alarm 61 struck at about ten o'clock last evening. The Cambridge Fire Department gave an excellent exhibition to half of Harvard and the whole of Cambridge. The fire was in a small shop back of the Cambridge car stables...