Word: contact
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...lungs are apt to be temporarily, if not permanently injured. Running, compels not only faster, but also deeper breathing; the inhaled air finds its way to the innermost and extremely delicate tissues of the lungs. These tissues, not used during the ordinary process of breathing, are lunfit for contact with very coldlair...
...snapper-back here take possession of the ball; that the teams then line out on the next five-yard lines toward their own goals, respectively. The opposing lines are then ten yards apart, with the snapper-back midway between them. This plan would prevent the players from remaining in contact while lining-out, would enable the ball to be passed more scientifically, and allow greater freedom in kicking. Where the ball is carried back to any five-yard line compensation is made for loss of ground to the side so carrying it back, by greater freedom in passing. This method...
...third lecture on the "Dynamics of Billiards." The subjects for discussion will be: I. The curvature of the cogs of wheels. II. Two circles are tangent to two given lines at two given points and also two tangent to each other. Find the focus of the points of contact of the circles...
...inferior to ours, because he feels the personal influence of teachers, is of far more importance than what of mere knowledge he could gain in larger universities. Can we compare the benefit which ten boys at Rugby derived from their books, with the incalculable good which resulted from contact with their noble head master, Dr. Arnold...
...poetry of football!" A "rouge" is won when the ball passes behind the goal lines, but not through the posts, and is touched first by one of the side which has forced it over. But the player who forces it over must at the moment be in immediate contact with one of his opponents; otherwise the ball is "cool," and is quietly kicked off into the middle of the ground by one of the side over whose lines it has passed, and the same thing happens when one of that side is the first to touch it behind the line...