Word: breather
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hose: Attached within 24 hours to breather fittings integral with hull...
...saturating his lungs with the gas. One last big lungful he then held, for 14 min., 2 sec.-long enough for a police-man to walk one mile. The previous breath-holding record is reported to have been approximately ten minutes, at the University of California, in 1916. Were Breather Gaylor to attempt living in an atmosphere surcharged with pure oxygen he would soon become drowsy, lose appetite, weight, and finding real difficulty in breathing, he would turn bluish and eventually die. This has been known since Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, whom French Revolutionists guillotined* in 1794, named...
...famous Brown eleven which engages the University next week will take a breather today after three successive contest with leading eastern teams. Norwich comes down from the Vermont hills to give the powerful Providence Bears a works at but has small hopes of carrying back a victory. Coach Hawley's Big Green eleven will play the much trampled on Boston University team. After a so far unsuccessful season the Dartmouth Indians are seeking to retrieve their past defects be a decisive triumph over Cornell next Saturday...
...have come round to the ballad. We cannot, and do not wish to, escape. Mr. Benet may brood over the sonnet (there are 16 in the book), but it will only flicker; it will not shine. For the sonnet's Procrustean tyranny will brook no revolt: the breather of cadences is either stretched or beheaded--both equally painful...