Word: blade
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...until at the mile point it had two more lengths of open water to its advantage. Here Kent broke his oar and the Blue eight paddled the remainder of the mile and five-sixteenths course with seven sweeps in use. Near the finish Galt of Yale also cracked his blade, but continued rowing...
Both this morning and afternoon the University and Freshman oarsmen will take practice workouts on Lake Carnegie, paying especial attention to smoothing out their blade work in final preparation for the race tomorrow, and in accustoming themselves to the Princeton shell which has been rerigged to suit the University's style of rowing...
...shadow Huns, the forerunners of a solid flesh and blood reality--or blood and iron, as it prefers to describe itself. All flesh is as grass, and grass is a thing for which the German sword has no use, except it snatch at a few wisps to wipe its blade...
...Hagedorn was poet of his class on graduation in 1907 and the author of several one-act plays that were produced by the Dramatic Club. He has since written "The Silver Blade," a play in verse, "A Troop of the Guard and Other Poems," and "The Horse Thieves," a one-act comedy...
...University eight took a short row on the lake before lunch, although the water was very rough. In the afternoon both crews went out, the University rowing three miles in one stretch at a slow stroke, spacing out well, with a hard finish. The Freshmen also rowed well. The blade work was good and the boat spaced better than usual. All the men are in good condition...