Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...LeMoyne, '78, have both improved on the use of their slides. Brigham does not set his shoulders firmly at the catch, and he lets them "give" when he takes hold. At times he fails to get his arms straight at the end of the recover. He also has an awkward habit of sticking his elbows out at the finish. Littaner reaches out too much with his shoulders, hurries the recover, and does not sit well up at the finish. He wants more "lift" at the beginning and more snap. Littaner improves very fast, and his form...
Conlan's inexperience places him, when compared with the rest of the men, at a disadvantage. He is a powerful man, but as yet awkward and stiff. Within the past three weeks, however, he has made decided improvement. Jacobs is doing well at 7, but fails to use his arms properly. He drops his hands before taking hold, does not pull them in high enough, and has, like Brigham, a habit of sticking his elbows out at the finish...
...fellow by the name of Robinson, who has lately been in Cambridge, and who told me that he had seen you there. He is related, I believe, to one of your classmates. My fraternal interest got the better of my manners, and I put him in a rather awkward position by asking him what he thought of you. He replied, with apparent sincerity, that you seemed to be a very good fellow, and that you were devilish amusing and impudent Now Robinson himself is a very good sort of a person, but his notions of amusing impudence do not agree...
...mouthing, with an awkward leap...
...awkward as a mule...