Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...there, that has never undergone the agony of sitting, half crushed-or, rather, owing to the unfortunate abundance of Cambridge females, of standing in the cold, crowded car, and peering frantically through the darkness in a vain attempt to discover the yard, which one never seems to reach...
When the body is bent forward, and the arms are extended to their "full reach," the shoulders should always be kept down and back, for a shoulder movement is jerky, as well as extremely tiresome. It is unnecessary work which often severely taxes an oarsman's strength. Meanwhile the arms are kept perfectly straight, (not rigid, for rigidity tires the muscles), until the body stops to reverse its motion just back of the perpendicular. At this point the arms are drawn to the chest at the rate at which the body has been swinging back; but, as soon as they...
...members. The Harvard Union shows 155 members this year to 126 last. The Dining Association has 740 men on its rolls. All the old law clubs are still in existence, and a new one has been founded, the Austin Club. Inspection of the records show that '84 failed to reach the standard of '83 in regard to commencement parts and honorable mentions, the score standing 118 "parts" and 112 "mentions" for '84, to 123 "parts" and 124 "mentions" for '83. As usual. The chief interest of the book centres in the records...
...rent goes, but how about care? Look at that mantelpiece, and the things on it! Why, they're buried in ashes more hopelessly than ever Pompeii was. Our goodies are not "too good," but "satis bonxexigue," which being translated meaneth, "just good enough,"-and few of them reach even that exalted standard. Now, by the gods of Gaul, look at this! 'Gas,' $13-why, I've burned nothing except my student lamp this whole term! And what's this? 'Board at Harvard Dining Association,' $54,-well, that's rather contradicted by the next, 'Extras,' $25. If I had stuck...
...fall of Constantinople, which brought a fresh supply of exited Greeks to Italy, some laden with manuscripts. gave an additional stimulus to the work. The invention of printing brought with it the power not only of multiplying these precious manuscripts indefinitely, but of putting their contents beyond the reach of destruction...