Word: straitly
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...second feat was the most wonderful of the evening and was performed in full sight of the audience. A strait jacket was buckled on by straps fastened behind his back. By violent exertion of the trunk he managed to work the strap fastening his hands up to his left shoulder and then slipped it forward by grinding his shoulder on the floor. It was then possible for him to unbuckle this strap with his teeth, and to undo with his hands, although enclosed in the sleeves, the strap behind his neck. Thus the jacket was sufficiently loosened to enable...
...Esquimaux in Baffin's Bay, and the Indians in British Columbia and Southern Alaska, as well as throughout the entire Pacific Coast. Besides having written extensively on these particular regions, and on various general questions of anthropology, Dr. Boaz was director of the Morris Jessup expedition to Behring Strait, which was engaged for six years in the study of the peoples of Northeastern Asia and Northwestern America...
...state of the undergraduate exchequer when the last month of the college year is reached, usually does not warrant any attempted assessment beyond the customary duns of omnipresent 'Varsity and class crew managers. The strait of the Weld Boat Club after the loss incurred on the day of the unfortunate races was unforsseen, however, and necessitates not only the co-operation of the club members but the help of the College at large...
...contemplate this phenomenon that this lecture goes back to the early ages. How was it possible that such a result should be attained? Why should so large an amount of labor have been put into this form of wealth, when the conditions of human existence were so strait and painful? Why, when bread was scarce almost to the point of famine, should men have dug for gold...
...Abbott then described briefly the different branches of work in his own church. It we are going to get hold of people outside of our churches we must lay aside all conventionality in tone and manner and go to them in a strait forward open...