Word: boned
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...feet which are worn to the bone...
Which, if she were muscle and bone...
...present, received a mortal wound. The crew last spring was a good one, and made good time, but ill-fortune attended it, and it only succeeded in coming in ahead of Cornell and Bowdoin at Lake George. Princeton, as well as the University of Pennsylvania, has a bone to pick with Columbia for not appearing at Philadelphia last June. But the sentiment here by no means justifies the opinions expressed in the University Magazine concerning the Harvard-Columbia dispute. To us, as lookers-on (perhaps not the best judges), the matter appears in a light very unfavorable to Harvard...
...trustees have this year provided us with a gymnasium, which, while it is small, is very neat and not at all gaudy. The students have begun work there already, and it is but natural to hope that by next spring Columbia may have increased as much in bone and sinew as she hopes to in brains...
...circumstances which tend to produce them. Consumption is, however, easy to prevent by a course of physical exercise. In Harvard, only one man out of three has a perfect chest, the principal imperfections being a flatness on the upper part and depression at the base of the breast bone, compression of the sides being prevalent. He explained the physiology of the respiratory organs and their action under exercise. The action of rowing was then explained in connection with the physiological structure of the lungs and heart. The exercise of filling and inflating the chest to the utmost, at the same...