Word: dose
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...when he comes here, he has no chance to learn anything. The natural effect is to-kill his interest. He does not like to make himself conspicuous and ridiculous on the floor in trying to get the knack of some simple little thing without help or direction. The unvaried dose of chest weights prescribed soon grows distasteful, and the new man finally either stays away from the gymnasium altogether or appears perhaps once a week from a sense of duty or the need of a bath...