Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...should be taken oftener, and men who do not take other exercise should accustom themselves to walking for an hour or two every day at the rate of four or five miles an hour. There is nothing so invigorating as a good, brisk walk with the shoulders thrown back and the chest expanded, and, besides, the country about Cambridge is well worth exploring on Saturdays and on leisure afternoons...
...Yale Record of May 19 notices a fire which broke out in one of their college buildings on Sunday last. Some students had been smoking cigarettes just before church, and during their attendance at divine service the stumps, which appear to have been thrown into an easy-chair, set their room on fire. An impromptu fire-brigade succeeded in extinguishing the flames, but the room was rendered almost uninhabitable. It is a lesson worth remembering. While cuspidors and ash-pans still exist, it is to be hoped that easy-chairs will not again be called upon to take their place...
...impersonation and whose guitar-playing was a feature of the play. Mrs. Foxton was represented by Mr. Seamans, whose appearance on the stage was the signal for applause. His make-up was in excellent taste, and he certainly made a very handsome lady. Two fine bouquets were thrown to him from the audience on his first appearance. The other characters were very well impersonated, especially that of Miss Arabella Pepper, a part which Mr. Lyon took with great success...
...Fact.MR. WETHERBEE, '78, met with quite a serious accident in the Foot-Ball match on Tuesday afternoon. One of the opposite side ran against him, he was thrown down, and his collar-bone was fractured. The bone has been set, and we understand that he is now in quite a comfortable condition...
...beginning of the stroke. The idea is not understood, or certainly not put into practice, that in the recover the motion of the hands should be fast, that of the body slow; and the beginning of the stroke should be emphasized by the whole force of the back thrown into it the moment the full extent of the recover is obtained. Two more weeks will make a great difference with all, and by that time let us hope that the oarsman's prayer for warmer and fairer weather may have been heard, and that he may no longer be kept...