Word: personally
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...rule, all the measurements of a small person fall to the left, and all the measurement of a large person fall to the right of the normal line. If strong for his age, weight, height or development, the part of his line that indicates the strength will be on the right of the part that indicates the age, weight or measurement...
...HODGES, Secretary.WILL the person who took a pair of shoes not belonging to him, from the gymnasium yesterday please return the same to the office, where he will receive his own pair in exchange...
...tewnty-four in number) will be given at the Museum of Comparative Zoology by Professor Whitney on Geographical methods and results. They will begin on Wednesday, Nov. 9th. at 3 p. m. Admission free, but tickets must be obtained of the lecturer through application by mail, or in person, since accommodation is limited. Preference will be given to teachers, for whom the course is specially intended...
...three spring-dynamometers, a spirometer, manometer, a pair of suspended rings and a set of parallel bars. The tests were limited to the back, legs, chest, upper arm and fore-arm. Before summing up the result of the arm of chest tests, the number of times that a person had lifted himself either way was multiplied into a tenth of his weight; the object being to credit each person with the number of foot pounds lifted, rather than to reckon the number of times the body was raised without respect to its weight. A tenth of the weight was taken...
...another. The extent of the variation is the desirable thing to know. In one instance this variation might not exceed the physical limits; in another it might result in a deformity. These differences are but vaguely suggested when expressed in figures, yet it is futile to tell a person that he is above or below the average without indicating the degree, or informing him of its significance...