Word: wheeling
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...directness that enables him to use their muscular force to the fullest extent. He is a far better type of a runner than his English rival, for the latter often extends his body forward, and uses his limbs much as the steamboats on shallow, narrow rivers do their single wheel in the stern, hence he cannot obtain their full driving power out of them in short distances...
...first number of The Wheelman, a handsome magazine issued monthly and devoted to bicycling news and articles. There is reproduced in this number that very amusing and well illustrated account of a tour made by the representatives of some seven or eight Massachusetts bicycle clubs around Boston, entitled "A Wheel around the Hub," which many will remember was brought out about two years ago in Scribner's. In the next issue a history of the above-mentioned article will be given, with a sketch of each one who participated...
...with the advent of spring a new interest in bicycling has been awakened, and a greater proportion of men are seen indulging in this really very beneficial exercise, for who can deny that as exercise it is beneficial? It is true that many physicians object very strongly to the wheel, and prophecy many injurious results that will arise from its use. How true and accurate these prophecies are, all who have ridden a bicycle for any length of time, who have experienced the exhilaration of whirling rapidly along in a manner which seems contrary to the laws of nature discovered...
...young women of the sophomore class of the Wisconsin State University have determined to wear mortar-board hats. It would be a great improvement upon the "cart-wheel." - [Graphic...
...know how to flute [aside] (though I can't tell, for the life of me, what that is. I suppose its some musical thing for the children), dust the parlors, do the sewing. In the spare moments you will be ready to read aloud to my mother, and to wheel the perambulator. However [slyly], I don't think that will be very hard work, for the policeman on our block is very good-looking and obliging. Then you will - oh, by the way, what is your name...