Word: forwards
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...brain have been lost without loss of activity. The "American Crowbar Case" is the most famous, when a bar 1 1-2 inches in diameter, and 3 feet long was shot in blasting through a man's head, entering in the jaw and coming out in the forward part of the head. This man recovered. Experiments on animals show that cutting out certain parts of the brain will produce paralysis of certain parts of the body. Disease, strong emotions, fear, grief, will also produce paralysis. The wonderful and inexplicable action of the will is thus stopped. The mind often produces...
...like that one over there, and mess is served on them. Twelve men sit at a table. They give us good food, nice bread, salt meat; fresh meat, and duff twice a week, Look out for your heads - its rather dark. This is the hospital," he said, taking us forward; "when a man comes on board he is measured, weighed and examined; if he is sick, he is put in here and cured." "What is this pen?" asked the "professor." "That's a 'jug'" answered the middy evasively, and then further explained that one large misdemeanor - such as smuggling whiskey...
...citizens of Cambridge alike. The programmes have been in the main well selected to please the audiences which assemble in Sanders Theatre, and in this respect the courses have probably been an improvement on those in Music Hall. Those who are to be in Cambridge next year will look forward to a course of symphonies in the same place. We hope they will not be disappointed...
...called upon in person to put them into operation. But, - and in all seriousness, - the undergraduates know perfectly well that there is constant danger of a terrible calamity by the burning of some of our tinderbox dormitories, and the fact that such a disaster is looked forward to by them was proved rather conclusively a few weeks ago, when an alarm, rung in from the box on Memorial Hall, emptied every building in the yard in less than two minutes, and sent half a thousand men to the point where the danger was indicated...
...final bout in the light-weight sparring between Ashe and Austin, '87, was looked forward to with the greatest interest. Austin forced the fighting from the first, in the second round giving his opponent some hard blows and getting a few in return. In the third round both men went quickly to work, but they showed the effects of their previous struggle, Ashe especially, who had a hard contest with Mitchell. Both soon became winded and their last few blows were weak and ineffective. After some minutes discussion, the judges decided to call the bout a draw, though...