Word: weakens
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that instead of its being an aid to digestion, it really retards it. With the heart it causes that palpitation and tremulousness that is so frequently observed, and is often the cause of vertigo. Its effect upon the optic nerve is to cause dimness of sight, and eventually to weaken the eye and bring on near-sightedness. The hearing is also affected by its use, a tendency being developed to hear imaginary sounds. Dr. Sargent said that in college the man who roomed above him was a great user of tobacco, and unfortunately was physically incapacitated from taking exercise...
...Thwing of Cambridge, in a recent article, expresses the opinion that "the regarding of the student as a citizen of the town in which the college is situated, and as responsible to its officers for all criminal offenses, whether stealing a sign or hazing a freshman, serves to weaken the force of the custom. Many colleges thus treat their members, and the members so regard themselves. The difficulty, however, in this remedy lies in the fact that cases of hazing may be perpetrated night after night and yet remain unknown to the officers of the law. It is not often...
...among us at present, and most of our athletes are now in active training in the gymnasium, while others will begin out-door work as early as is practicable. Mott Haven is not the place for individual rivalry between members of the same team, and such practices will only weaken the opposing contestants and lessen our chances of victory. Let all such matters be settled at our own athletic meetings, and let our representatives so divide up the events for Mott Haven that each man's powers of endurance will not be too severely tested by entering too many events...
...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 who consulted him, he found hardly...
...crawl, I weaken, I ignominiously flunk...