Word: lunging
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...have seen that oxygen for the most part is taken in through the lungs, and the act which they perform taking it in is called respiration. At the back of the mouth are two passages leading downward, the one in front going to the lungs. The act of breathing requires that this trachea, as it is called, should be kept open all the time, so there are placed in its walls rings of cartilage which are incomplete in some part of their circumference. The epiglottis, fastened to the back part of the tongue keeps food from falling into the windpipe...
...other players retire to a safe distance, and after asking permission of the referee, and saying his prayers, he kicks the ball. No shouting is allowed, because it scares nervous players (and all our boys are preternaturally nervous), and besides it irritates the throat and predisposes to the lung troubles so rife in this climate. Any player who accidentally strikes another shall be at once arrested, taken to the Municipal Court and fined one hundred dollars for aggravated assault. The "gentlemanliness" of the game shall be preserved, and the wearied players carried home in coaches...
...Hitchcock, show an average weight of 148 3-5 pounds; average height, 5 feet 7 1.8 inches; chest, full, 36 7-8 inches; chest, repose, 35 3-8 inches; contracted biceps, right arm, 11 5 8 inches; biceps not contracted, 10 1-4 inches; capacity of lungs, 4.416 litres. The chest measurements and lung capacity are above the average of college students...
...keys, and on looking in at the open door, he will see a confused mass of little human bodies squatted on the floor, rocking back and forth in well-kept measure, and repeating, parrot-like, the lesson of the day, each viewing with the others as a lung-tester; while in the background, squatted likewise on the pedagogical mat, is the instructor, whose chief business seems to be to keep up the rhythmical rocking and Babel of sound to its highest pitch. This he does by occasional adjuration, strengthened by applications of a long cane, which seems...
...German, they are without any musical merit. With his curious ignorance of humor, the undergraduate believes that certain of these songs are humorous. What must be the mental condition of the person who holds that it is funny to repeat in unmusical chorus the words 'co-ca-che-lung, che-lung, chelaly,' and who, utterly forgetful of self-respect and a future state of rewards and punishments, will repeat these words for hours at a time...