Word: backed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...polish. The stroke waits a little at the beginning of the recover, - a very bad fault, - and there are many other failings among the crew. The swing together is not so perfect as it might be. No. 3 does not pull his stroke through, and wants to get more back into it. However, with some intelligent person to coach them, we need not fear their making a bad record at Saratoga...
...start was not good, though not bad enough to justify calling the boats back. Weld was backing, and did not seem to hear the word...
Holworthy led all the way back, while there was a dead set-to between Matthews and Weld for second place...
...athletic sports are concerned; for the body, on whose development especial care has been bestowed for many months, is now often almost entirely neglected in the eager effort to review a year's work in a few days. It does not seem out of place, therefore, to look back on the history of those associations which have been founded among us with the design of promoting physical development, in order to see how many of their early promises they have redeemed...
...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...