Word: breathed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meantime, with Morrocco and France holding their breath, troops stood by ready to invade the tribal lair and deal swift justice, should the negotiations for the ransom break down...
Muscular Anesthesia. In rowdy secret society initiations the novice, standing rigidly erect, arms at sides, is made to inhale very deeply and hold his breath. As his face grows red and his eyes bulge, great arms glide around his chest, like brewers' clamps over a beer keg. Just as the initiant feels like the inflated frog of Aesop's fairy tale, the great arms squeeze; the victim drops heavily, rendered unconscious by muscular anesthesia. This initiation "stunt," Professor Arno Benedict Luckhardt of the University of Chicago reminded the Academy, is dangerous to a person with a weak heart. The sudden...
...survey courses, covering tremendous fields with the speed and inevitableness of an express train, then the journey should be conducted as intelligently as possible. To continue the figure, such courses would do well, to adopt Mr. Rich's plan in the cause of a better remembrance of the itinerary, breath taking and limited though it may be. The way stations are sometimes as worth while as the final destination...
...game. I am 61, but strong and hearty for my time of life. I have seen golf played once or twice and it does not seem a difficult game. I am five feet eight, can go upstairs quite fast without getting out of breath; and walk a good many miles every month looking for jobs. I haven't been able to find a job lately; and Mr. Blake's $10 would mean a lot. I am really very, very active. I am sure I could win. Will you tell Mr. Epstein? Tell him I will even split...
...recognition of an intrinsic merit of personal method, which ranks the first trans-atlantic passage on a popular par with the first successful attempt to stand an egg on end. And so it may be that unborn generations of Harvard Presidents will mention in the same breath the development of the tutorial system with the creation of a standard and unmistakable set of Harvard crockery. Both will be remembered as unique differing not so much in kind as in degree...