Word: straightening
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...taken to arrange more games, there is lite like lihood of the class base-ball championship being settled at all this year. The management of the class-games has been extremely bad, and affairs have now fallen into such a rut that it will be a difficult task to straighten them out again. Games which should have been played or forfeited were postponed with impunity either by the consent of both of the captains or on account of petty wrangles about the umpire. The captains of class teams who were appointed to umpire did not show any zeal or interest...
...regard to one's development as plotted in Dr. Sargent's anthropometric chart, the point of greatest significance is not to see how many of one's measurements come in the centre of the chart, but to first endeavor to straighten one's line wherever it may be, and then carry it forward as near the one-hundred per cent. line as possible. In other words, endeavor to obtain a symmetrical figure; then strive for a fullorbed and harmonious development of all parts of the body...
...Marquand, W. G. Rantoul, J. Endicott, G. Perry (anchor); '90 by R. Jones, C. L. Crehore, J. P. Hutchinson, A. Amory (anchor). Mr. Morrison, '83, started the teams after the usual number of futile efforts; '90 won the drop by two inches. '89 worked hard and Perry struggled to straighten out his knees; nevertheless '90 had two and a half inches at the end of two minutes. Amory only came down once, and that time he got a couple more inches; '89 mean while was fighting for all it was worth; Perry was not only sandy, he was foxy...
...Doesn't get a good seat. Hangs at full reach and overreaches. Must keep shoulders down and back. Doesn't straighten arms. Must keep head up and wrists straight. Must sit higher...
During the tug-of-war on Saturday, one of the rope men of the '86 team was heard angrily to cry out to the anchor of that team "Why don't you straighten out your legs...