Word: totaled
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...force with which, in consequence of the respirating needs, the heart acts. But it is in part the result of the compression of the capillaries of the muscles by the contracting fibres, and also the result of the compression of the arterial trunks by the rigid muscles. The total resistance to the action of the heart is thereby considerably increased. From carefully compiled statistics of the English University crews, not only are the men not injured, but actually improved in health, if we may judge from the fact that their years are increased. But length of days is not everything...
Instead of only a few of the colleges of Oxford requiring admission examinations, there are only a very few - less than one fifth of the total number, including the Halls - which do not require them...
...Pasteur's laboratory is crowded with patients every morning. The total number of all nationalities he has thus far treated is two hundred...
...agony of the man who finds himself confronted by some phrase of a dead or unfamiliar living language which he cannot, for the life of him, translate. No true Harvard man, however, will give up the attempt to construe a sentence because of any such trivial obstacle as total ignorance of its meaning. A good guess is not without its value, and if the guesser fails to hit within forty rows of apple trees of his mark, - why, it makes no difference. A total omission would have been fully as disastrous...
...Total liabilities...