Word: fletcherism
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...Elephants, previously defeated by both Kirkland and Winthrop, started well at a 38 for ten strokes and then dropped the rhythm to a 30 1/2, which stroke Dugald Fletcher kept for the body of the race. As the boat passed under the Massachusetts Avenue Bridge at the three-quarter mile mark. Winthrop, rowing at a 33, was leading the Elephants by a length...
...quite agree," said the other panel member, Subbiah Kannappan, graduate of the University of Madras, and now of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. "The United States and the U.S.S.R. should stop this pressure...leave Asia alone to work out her own balance...
...courses in the field of Education will deal with the elementary school situation, and the three of these dealing with elementary and secondary school teaching of science will be given by President Conant and assistants Professor Fletcher G. Watson of Harvard and Dr. Paul F. Brandwein of Columbia...
...halt. Photographer Silk crawled from the plane to shoot his pictures.* General Old, who had flown as copilot, trudged back up the plane's ski tracks in the 60°-below-zero cold. "I don't see how a man can live here," he told Fletcher when he had staggered back...
...Colonel Fletcher had come too far to quit. The two-men stood within a foot of each other, their hands over their faces, mumbling against the cold that numbs men's minds. Every now & then they would drop their hands and jump about violently for warmth. Eventually Fletcher won the argument. He and his two assistants were permitted to stay, and General Old pitched in to help unload supplies...