Word: heartly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There is a large amount of elastic tissue in the lungs, so that by virtue of their elasticity they can expel a large part of the air which they contain when inflated. A certain amount, however, always remains. As the heart is enclosed in a sort of sack called the pericardium, so are the lungs enclosed in a sack, the pleura, the inner part of which passes over the outside of the lungs and the outer part lines the inside of the chest. In health there is nothing between these two surfaces but a little moisture which helps them...
...essays Matthew Arnold writes: "Who will deny that Oxford, by her ineffable charm, keeps ever calling us nearer to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection? Adorable dreamer, whose heart has been so romantic! Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!" To-day such words are only partly true of Harvard, though less true of any other college in our land. Yet if we are to have that feeling of love and reverence for her, which the Englishman has for Oxford, she must become, in some sense, a "Queen...
...Forty-three times had the boy-choir opened on him with the theme of retribution. Forty-three times had the preacher taught him that the way of the transgressor is hard. Praise, prayer, benediction, - 43 combined failures to accomplish a moral reformation. But the Sunday Herald softened his hard heart...
With regard to the effects on the heart of exercise, when it is taken to preserve or improve the health, or even in the case of those who carry it beyond this point, though still within the bounds of amateur sport, it is not easy to make a decided statement. The reports are conflicting, some authorities appearing to have seen a great many evil results from athletic sports, effecting the heart, while others are of the opinion that their injurious influences have been much overrated. To begin with, not all who enter athletic sports have their hearts examined, and even...
...into a number of smaller branches. The smallest bronchial tubes at last end in little sacs which are air cells. The walls between them are very thin, and in these walls are the capillary vessels into which the artery bringing the blood from the right side of the heart breaks up. So the blood flowing through them is exposed to the air on both sides. In early life the lungs have a rose color; but as a person grows older, a quantity of black looking matter is found scattered through them, and sometimes forming streaks in the surface. This...