Word: strains
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...into the boat, they pushed on. As it afterward proved, the neglect to put on the washboards proved fatal. When nearly 150 yards from the Union boat-house, the forward part of the boat was so full of water that something had to be done to relieve the heavy strain. Perceiving, with the true instinct of heroes, the imminent danger to the boat and their companions, Messrs. Keith and Bunney, Horatius-like, leapt into the foaming flood and swam to the nearest land, which proved to be the Charles river embankment, some 50 feet distant. The remainder of the crew...
...mile course in boat-races. All physicians, who have given the subject any thought or attention, unanimously agree that a race of four miles is but a needless test of a man's endurance, and that no man can row that distance, spurred on by ambition and excitement and straining every muscle at each stroke, without some serious injury, which is sure to make itself apparent sooner or later. Such a strain on both nerves and muscles can not be without effect, as has been shown in many cases, during or immediately after the race. It is a well known...
This is not the first time that the existence of Memorial has hung by a thread which the slightest strain would easily break. It is now time, once for all, to determine the needs of its future and permanent welfare. We must look the facts squarely in the face and act according to the conclusions legitimately obtained from them. We have tried to conduct the hall as a student affair, and have failed; it is unpleasant to say "failed," but it is for all that the truth. It is not our purpose, nor is it necessary, to show...
...pull if the enemy make a sudden effort which is not quickly responded to by his team. Every one finds a tug-of-war the most trying exercise when first practised, because he does not know how to husband his strength, by resting between the heaves when the whole strain is borne by the anchor. Another cause of over-exertion is in not understanding the proper use of the legs, which really should bear the principal strain. In this respect, the tug-of-war is much like the lifting machine, in that the hands and arms merely serve to hold...
...following concerning some causes of heart disease, and the evils caused by the use of tobacco, we clip from the N. Y. Tribune. "There is an increase of heart trouble, as there always would be in feverish and hurried lives. Many lives are intense enough to strain the whole human system, and increase and hurry the circulation and finally weaken it. A prominent English physician has written his experience in the matter of athletic exercises. Young men, boys who are not fully developed, strain their young muscles, hurry their breathing and circulation, whether by athletic games or rowing. Of those...