Word: longer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...place the body on its back and begin a circular motion with the arms on lines parallel to the body, thus expanding and contracting the chest. Do this at the rate of about 16 to the minute. Life is sometimes restored after as much as two hours work. A longer time would probably be useless...
...theory. The lands of the Mediterranean were once called the gardens of the world, but to day these once fertile fields have become arid deserts. What has been the cause of the great climatic change, whereby these countries have lost their former power to produce large crops, and no longer are able to support as large a population as formerly? A number of cases where water-courses and lakes have decreased in volume while the clearing of forests was being carried on, and which resumed their former size upon the cessation of the clearing were cited. The destruction...
...jolly, rattling choruses which college men alone can sing. Nowadays all this is changed. Night after night the silence of the yard is unbroken, save by the whistling of some chance passer. The Glee Club saves its energies for more dignified concerts. The great secret societies no longer "sing through the yard." Even within the last four years, student song has entered upon a marked decline. It was no uncommon thing in the spring of '83 to hear a merry chorus from some small knot of men lying lazily on the grass, nor was it thought a source of wonder...
...hear on one day that the employees of the Cambridge Railroad threaten to strike; on the next that the scholars of public schools in various parts of the country are demanding longer recesses; and on the next, as a third great blow to education, that the tennis "shacks" want higher wages. What is Harvard coming to? Each hour almost the evils of strikes seem to be closing in more seriously upon her. It is hard to say where the next blow will be. Perhaps the goodies will call for more pay and fewer rooms. But it is to be hoped...
...quite possible to erect at the back of some courts stop-nets, which would remove all necessity of hiring "shacks." The nets may be obtained at a very cheap rate in any fishing town. Perhaps, however, it would be better to put up wire netting which would last longer, and in the long run be more satisfactory. The posts need not be very expensive, and could be permanent. This plan would save much money to college men, and is worthy of serious consideration by the managers of the Tennis Association...