Word: knocking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...represent more moderate means, and to the less critical eye are just as pleasant and interesting, if not as luxurious and a la mode. It might be interesting to note what one finds of special interest in these sanctums of college men. Let us, therefore, make a call. We knock, and the response, "Come in!" tells us that Snodkins is in. We enter, greet the "old fellow," start out with a discussion of the late Princeton game, and finally conclude that Harvard men don't know how to play foot ball anyway. Meanwhile we have been looking around. 'Gentlemen will...
...such a thing gets monotonous; the body is active, but the mind becomes uninterested. Mechanical exercise may be very good, but it is not merely as beneficial as modes of exercise which are for something additional to merely physical development. My meaning is just this. A man might. knock a tennis ball about all day, even have a net to knock it over, and yet not bet much, if any real good for his trouble, but put another man on the other side of the net, and you see how "circumstances alter cases." Mental interest and excitement combined with...
...seen the game of baseball as it is played by the so-called best college nines will at once admit. For the pitcher, instead of delivering the ball to the batter in an honest, straightforward way, that the latter may exert his strength to the best advantage in knocking it, now uses every effort to deceive him by curving-I think that is the word-the ball. And this is looked upon as the last triumph of athletic science and skill. I tell you it is time to call halt! when the boasted progress in athletics is in the direction...
...female is much shorter proportionately than that of the male. On this account the female cannot hold the racket on a line with the arm, but necessarily at a large angle with the arm. Accordingly when the ball is returned the action of the arm tends to knock it sideways. This peculiarity is especially noticeable in returning swift balls...
...female the articulation of the humorous with the ulna and radius is imperfect, thus causing a constant angle at the elbow. When, therefore, the racket hits a ball, it tends to knock it high up in the air. Some have said that this defect is the chief in causing the female to be a poor tennis player. The smallness of her ribs, thinness of the scapula, and shortness of the clavicle unite to prevent her from reaching high balls. These defects, together with the unusually large size of the triceps extensor muscle, make it hard for the female to serve...