Word: elie
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crews which have yet to make their first appearance in official competition are the two light- weight shells. The Varsity fifties are very much of an unknown quantity with only two veterans from the 1934 eight although there are four Sophomores from the yearling crew which took over the Eli aggregation last spring. Tom Whitney, who is setting the beat as well as captaining the boat, stroked two crews for the Crimson in his Freshman year when he took over the pace-setting position of the heavy yearlings after timing the Freshman fifties. Although he did not row last year...
Scott, a Sophomore who made his rowing debut last June, came from the Jayvee boat where he held the number four position, leaving a vacancy which was filled by Jim Gardner, one of the four veterans of last year's Eli race, until yesterday rowing on the third Varsity...
...season will be the Carnegie Cup Race in which they will meet Cornell, Yale, and Navy. Sikes will not permit any looking past the Compton and Childs Cup Races to this regatta at Ithaca, but unconsciously the men cannot dismiss from their minds the fanatical desire to dump the Eli jiux...
...Eli Whitney constructed a violin before he was 12, was an expert nail-maker at 16. In 1793 he invented a machine in which a toothed cylinder forced raw cotton through a mesh screen, thus separating the lint from the seeds. Eli Whitney's cotton gin patent was signed by President George Washington and two members of his Cabinet on March 14, 1794, and U. S. cotton, then no more than the material for a piddling domestic industry, began its history as a world commodity...
Meanwhile great strides were made in mechanical wheat harvesting. Threshers, reapers, combines, tractors replaced the man with the scythe and profoundly changed the economy of the grain-growing West. But today the cotton crop is harvested exactly as it was when Eli Whitney invented his cotton gin-by Negroes moving between the rows of plants, plucking the fluffy bolls by hand and stuffing them into huge bags which the pickers drag behind them. An average picker bags about 100 Ib. of seed cotton a day, for which, if he is hired by a plantation owner, he may, in good times...