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...whole brain looks like a dirty, wetted newspaper crumpled up and patted into somewhat the shape of a rounded bun. Another comparison might be to a lobsided mushroom, for the bottom of the brain runs into a sort of stalk, which is the spine...
...opinion of the British mooter of the subject,* because her thigh muscles may not have been adequately strengthened in girlhood. But for the girl taught to ride astride from childhood there need be no such fear for her or for her health. She will have learned balance, kept her spine straight, and strengthened her abdominal and thoracic muscles as well as those of her legs. She can keep her seat in a walk, amble, trot, canter, gallop or jump, even in the English saddle with its low pommel and cantle. In the McClellan saddle of the U. S. Army...
...Nonrigid airships (balloons) are constructed with no metal framework in the gasbag save a ring at the bottom to which fabric, valves and passenger basket are attached. The semirigid dirigible ("blimp") employs a keel or spine of structural metal usually aluminum, to stiffen the under side of the envelope, support cabins, motors, crew. The rigid (Zeppelin) type of ship has a complete skeleton of struts and girders, with hoops articulated laterally inside its spine and ribs to form separate gas chambers when covered with fabric inside as well...
...hoped that he was present at the cave-in. One would like to hear what chills fluttered down his spine as he saw the strangely sagging ice, knowing what emptiness lurked below but not what quips might strike above. Perhaps like Napoleon at Ratisbon, he mused, "my plans to earth may fall" let yonder crevices sunder inches more...
...individual). In general, the life history of every individual animal is but an abbreviation of his racial history. This is true of man as of the rest of the animal kingdom. He begins with a single cell, which multiplies. In the fetus, he develops a cartilaginous spine, then a segmented back bone, an elongated body, a well-developed tail, five gill slits (two of which later become the Eustachian tubes) ; he resembles in turn a fish, an amphibian, a primitive reptile, a primitive mammal, an ape; he has dark soft hair covering the entire body except the palms...