Word: badness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...forward. 3. Abdomen in or flat. 4. Back usual curves not exaggerated. Group B; Fairly Good Mechanical Use of the Human Body. 1. Head too far forward. 2. Chest not so well up or forward. 3. Abdomen very little change. 4. Back very little change. Group C; Bad Mechanical Use of the Body. 1. Head forward of chest. 2. Chest flat. 3. Abdomen relaxed and forward. 4. Back curves are exaggerated. Group D; Very Bad Mechanical Use of the Body. 1. Head still farther forward. 2. Chest still flatter and farther back. 3. Abdomen completely relaxed "Slouchy". 4. Back...
...certainly too bad that hockey cannot be played in front of an open fire, but the nature of the sport seems to preclude the idea. Doubtless the football team would prefer to practice in morrischairs; the swimming team would like to hold their races in bathtubs. Doubtless, but --. Harvard men do not always spend their time avoiding disagreeable work. Our much-envied string of victories over Yale and Princeton proves that there are some men in College who are not afraid of cold weather or hard, unpleasant, grinding practice...
...present number of the Advocate being almost entirely written by undergraduates is, oddly enough, all the more literary than usual. In fact, to an outsider it seems that Mother Advocate might be saying to herself. "Well, this home cooking isn't so bad after all." Having decided for a homelike novelty, the editors evidently stipulated that quality and good humor were not to go by the board; these two points the reviewer finds as outstanding features of the number...
...principle of free speech has had almost universal acceptance since a hundren and twenty-five years ago. In countries and localities where it has been applied, "free trade in ideas" has usually resulted in the separation of the good from the bad, and "the power of though to get itself accepted in the competition of the market" has been proved. Governments have found that when attempt is made to clamp down the lid on things they dislike the result has been that the lid has not only been forced open but entirely blown...
...weeks' practice, even though most of it would be indoors, would serve to put the men back in the condition in which they were at the close of the season, and the doctors have said that physically the trip would have no bad effects on the men, even though they had broken training routine since the Yale game...