Word: bowed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...professional trainers was then called to the attention of the Convention. On motion of Mr. Ferry, it was agreed that, in order to more easily distinguish the position of boats at the finish, each boat should carry its number on a wire gauze frame raised on the bow...
...fisted Buffalo, 3, Red-eyed Sam, bow...
Hoop-La, 3, Jim-Jam, bow...
...were offered that she would not come in last, when an unlooked-for circumstance took place which eventually gave the victory to our College. When three fourths of a mile from the stake-boat, the Indian crew, spurting, overhauled the Chinamen, and through the carelessness of Jim-Jam, the bow-oar of Ah Sin, the two boats fouled; the boats which were closely following these two crews, in endeavoring to avoid a collision with them, fouled each other, and in an incredibly short space of time the course became completely blocked, over 490 boats being hopelessly entangled, - Vassar ahead, clear...
...this juncture "the colored crew pulled nobly," seeing which, Bruiser, bow-oar of Yale, raised his oar, and brought it down upon the devoted head of Ephraim G. Stubbs with great violence...