Word: lengthening
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...made. Care should also be taken that no man gets forward too soon, as he has, in that case, to wait at full stretch till the others are forward, and all the air has gone from his lungs. If a man does this persistently, it is well to lengthen his stretcher...
...thought to lengthen...