Word: constant
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...than one half of the cases. As the heart not only sends the blood through the body, but also receives its nourishment from it, when the food supply is insufficient or of an improper kind, the blood cannot be of the right kind to support the heart in its constant labor. In this way alcohol, by interfering with digestion and destroying the appetite, deprives the heart of what it needs. This is altogether apart from the special influence which alcohol has as a deranger of the heart's action...
Tobacco smoking must come in for its share of blame in producing heart trouble, and on this point there has been the most violent controversy. There is hardly any question but that in the majority of cases, the heart of the constant smoker has lost in muscular strength. For safety, a smoker should take plenty of exercise in the open air, and do his smoking in moderation after meals. Do not smoke on an empty stomach, or use very strong tobacco, or an old foul pipe. By the term hypertrophy of the heart is meant an increase in the size...
...prominent periodical published recently a sarcastic criticism of the present prevalence of what is called Harvard slang. If we were for a moment to analyze the character of Harvard conversation we would find that slang, if we may so term it, has become a constant quantity in all that we say. Professors "cut" and students "crib." We elect "soft" or "stiff" courses. We get a "whooper" or "plucked" in consequence. We "grind up for the semis" and by means of "guff" and "gall" we "skin through." This really is entertaining but hardly elevating. But where shall we stop? Shall...
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...dislike to be forever harping on the old subjects, and their constant rewriting is as troublesome to us as the perusal of them can possibly be to the reader; yet we must once more raise our voices in protest against the temperature of the Chapel. Of late there has been no pretense made of heating the place, and yesterday morning the temperature was very near the zero point. It is positively inhuman in the persons who are responsible for this condition of affairs to let things go on as they have been going. A few more experiences like that...