Word: drag
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Cambridge. Finally, they return to themselves, and close with a prayer for cleanliness, tidiness, and women servants. We sincerely hope that they may soon have all these. Their present lot is hard indeed. We can pity, though we can hardly realize, the sad, solitary, and savage lives that they drag on, unbrightened by the smiles and uncheered by the refining presence of chambermaids. This article renders us sensible of our own blessings. We thank goodness for our goodies; and we cannot refrain from thanking the Lit., in the name of those fair attendants, for the pretty compliment which...
...failed to obtain a lead. Weld and Holworthy reached their stake very nearly together, and Holworthy, in attempting to turn inside of Weld, was carried by the tide into the stake-boat, and a port oar and outrigger were caught under the anchor-line so firmly as to drag the stake-boat some distance and to cause a delay to Holworthy of twenty or thirty seconds. By this time Holyoke and Matthews had a long lead, and Weld was five or six lengths ahead of Holworthy. The race from this point was practically between Matthews and Holyoke...
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...greatest enemies to the rowing of the college, and one hard to overcome; but if a crew wish to do well, they must be perfect in their swinging together. Again, the manipulation of their oars was very loose; there was a slovenly habit of letting the oar drag on the water, and this made a very bad appearance from the splashing which arose...
...three lower classes each intend to enter a first and second crew. Of the first crews, the Junior has been rowing longest together, and, with the exception of one or two weak-places, seems to pull the strongest of any. There is a visible drag in their boat at times, principally after a long row, which no doubt will not be seen in the race...