Word: skips
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...course, it may not be the same 2300 who fail to partake of nourishment every day. One might almost guarantee that it is not. Some other 2300 probably take turns; there may be any number of shifts who regularly skip a day or two each week. But that there should be so many youthful ascetics seems remarkable. The foregoing of food is not ordinarily a vice of the young...
...forth to the world, in a bare three-hundred and fifteen pages, the whole achievement of Classical Greece is an ambitious undertaking, more so, one feels, even than a History of the World, because, where such a History may skip, or may state bare facts and drift on, here one must stop and interpret master achievement in universality. War, Politics, Philosophy, Economy, Letters, Art, Trade, it is like taking "all mankind" for one's business...
...strikes say an F sharp on the piano. The third key may strike B, the fourth a G sharp. By striking the keys on the attachment one after another, as on the piano keyboard you would strike C, D, E, F, etc., you get a melody that may skip around anywhere on the piano keyboard...
...market for some time a system of learning piano-playing by placing over the keys a paper diagram marked with the names of the keys. " Learn to play the piano in a week! Be popular and surprise your friends ! " In this way, though, the player has to skip from one interval to another as on the keyboard itself, while with the Bubble Piano he strikes one key after another in regular succession...
...rope jumping is an innovation this year added to the regular morning calisthenics which are now a part of the training. The ropes are passed out at the end of the setting up exercises and even the 230-pound guards are compelled to learn to hop and skip rope again as a muscle loosener...