Word: bows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Under the new arrangement Kelley has taken Hubbard's place at five, while Hobson has been promoted from the Junior eight to row at bow. To fill the vacancy in the second boat Cummings has been moved up from the combination...
...downstream Coach Muller took Captain Ladd's place at number 6 in University A, but after the Navy Yard was reached, Coach Muller returned to the launch, letting Ladd row back upstream. A feature of the morning's practice was the rowing of the University crew in pairs. First bow and number 2 rowed together, the other oarsmen resting, then numbers 3 and 4, 5 and 6, and number 7 and stroke...
...work of substitution was carried one step further than was the case with Coach Muller's boats. Coaches William and Bert Haines started out at stroke and seven respectively, and moved down the shell, occupying in succession the positions of 6 and 5, 4 and 3, and 2 and bow. Afternoon work for the 1926 men was confined to a 3-mile paddle...
...argument advanced by those who favor Montenegrin union with Yugo-Slavia runs to the effect that " King Nicholas had more than one string to his bow during the war"; it is felt that he did not wholeheartedly espouse the cause of the Allies. Whether or not that question affects the status of Montenegro or Montenegrin liberty today, it is always brought up in that connection...
Among the most interesting of the demonstrations was that in which troop 9 of Boston put 12 men over a wooden wall 15 feet high in 35 seconds. In the fire making contest without matches, E. D. Davenport of Troop 4 won the championship, adjusting the bow and string and whirling the pivot until he obtained a spark to light the flame all in 43 seconds...