Word: lift
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Remember the other person" and "Lean on your subject" are the last two precepts. The author acknowledges that he has passed by "a whole class of helpful influences" and has "assumed that our cultivation in English is to be effected by naked volition and a kind of dead lift." He recommends him who would speak or write well to "live in the society of good speakers and writers, "for the society of the greatest writers is open to the most secluded...
...which Harvard crews have been very deficient of late years. The body swing is very long. The leg drive beginning at the catch with the shoulders thrown on hard to gain a strong position. The pressure is increased through the stroke ending in a hard finish. There is no lift in the stroke as there was last year but a horizontal drive throughout. The hands are shot away quickly and the body swing taken at the beginning of the recover. The stroke is longer and has more rhythm and swing than that of late Harvard crews. The average weight...
...Harvard Freshman Crew is smooth and very fast. There is no lift settling or stop between strokes to their boat. Their power is applied horizontally straight through the stroke and well together. They are all in the best of condition except stroke Boardman, who has been a trifle fine. Marvin has been put in at Donald's seat. The order of the crews for the race is as follows...
Below are given the records of the fifty strongest men in the University made during the year ending June 10, 1896, in accordance with the system adopted at the Hemenway Gymnasium. These points are reckoned as follows: The number of kilos. lifted with the back and legs straight, and the number of kilos. lifted with the legs bent, added to the strength of the grip of the right and left hands, expiratory power as tested by the manometer, and one-tenth of the weight in kilos. multiplied by the number of times that the person can raise his weight...
...morainal deposits may be studied. On the seashore there is an admirable exhibition of dike phenomena. The formation of marine pebbles may be studied in those produced from the quarry waste thrown into the sea. The quarries exhibit the phenomena of jointing, and the peculiar accidents of "rift" "lift" and "cut-off," terms used by the quarrymen to indicate available lines of weakness in the stone, which they may use in extracting blocks. If the conditions favor, traces of submerged forests may be found. The excursion is recommended as one of the best which can be made within the limits...