Word: tired
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...into a boat in haphazard style and tell them to pull just as hard as they could. No attention whatever was paid to the position of the body. Physical power was the sole object looked for. His principle was that the human system does not tire. If the men had been engines instead of human beings, Davis's principle would have been a great success...
...have been the theatre and the opera. Society, with its frivolous tendencies, has presented few charms to me. Partly from bashfulness, partly from misogynism, I have always taken special care to avoid all feminine society. But of Salvini and Booth, Januschausky and Margaret Mather, I think I should never tire; while I have been carried away with enthusiasm at the high notes of Sembrich...
...names are mentioned prominently in this connection are then notified, and a formal caucus is held, at which the nominee receiving the largest number of votes is declared to be the regular party candidate. At this caucus it may be said that the one who stays long enough to tire his opponents is the one who receives the nomination Next in order comes a call for an assembly of all the voters, at which the candidates of the respective parties make speeches, for the most part devoted to criticism of their opponents. The fact which the lecturer said he wished...
...whole nine months of the school year? We can best answer this by examining the experience of the case in point. In so long a course of training as nine months, some of the best men who make up the first eight almost necessarily get disabled or get tired of the work, and their places must be filled by men who did not show up so well at first. If we look at the men who have taken the places of those who are either temporarily or wholly laid up, we find, with only one exception, that they...
...well as the two latter. Barnes began very actively, using a pair of much admired clubs. Hamlin swung his clubs easily and gracefully. Barnes performed some beautiful evolutions, requiring both skill and strength. Hamlin, too, gradually became familiar with his clubs, and in reality did not seem to tire as much as his opponent. After the five minutes had expired they withdrew, and Luce, '82, and Kent, '82, entered. Neither of these handled the clubs with the ease of Hamlin or Barnes. Kent attempted more difficult feats than his opponent, and his muscular arm seemed never to tire. Toward...