Word: strip
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...cells, thin walls are brought into contact with each other, and the whole lung in an airless condition may be pressed into the back part of the chest alongside of the back bone, where it lies as useless, as far as breathing is concerned, as a strip of leather. The same results may follow from the destruction of the elastic fibre of the lung, which takes such an active share in driving out the air expiration. Impurities in the air are breathed in and cause fevers. The diseases which result from trouble to the respiratory organs are almost innumerable...
...Quakers have received support. Hereafter no one will be required to officiate, but each student will quietly mediate, and wait for the moving of the spirit. In order to accomplish this revolution, a few more changes are necessary. Abolish the boy choir, do away with ringing of the bell, strip the Chapel of its decorations, and finally remove the compulsory feature, and allow the Quaker-like spirit of devotion to manifest itself in its full voluntary aspect...
...advance the higher education of women, surely no better and no more promising means could be taken. A college for women under the shadow of Harvard University, with no restrictions from poverty and narrow quarters, would grow rapidly into an institution which would not only rival but even out-strip any similar institution in the country. In whom and how soon is the Annex to find a benefactor...
...effecting an entrance. Knowing that to obtain a copy of the paper is not practicable, the ingenious young man, whose conscience and knowledge are both at a low ebb, prepares himself for the battle. That is, he makes his "cribs." An old-fashioned "crib" is made by taking a strip of tough, thin paper, five or six inches in length and one in width, fastening at each end a match, writing the slip full of memoranda likely to prove useful, rolling up each end until the two cylinders meet, and then by a light elastic fastening them together. This crib...
...this you will be sore and stiff for at least a week. If you are as I say, corpulent, take Turkish baths and long walks for about a week or ten days, by which time you will be ready to begin work. When a person strips for the first time in the season, he naturally feels light and strong, and equal to almost anything. If you allow this feeling to carry you away and do too much you will be thrown back in your work. How often have I heard men remark after the first day's exercise...