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Spracklin taught Butt an approach to familiarizing his crew with the stroke which maximized the work done by the oar blade in the water based on this principle: If a blade is forced into the water hard enough, Spracklin said, a mound of water forms in front of the blade that exerts a backwards force on the blade and thereby holds it firmly in the water...
...Musselman was also on the mound for that one-game playoff against Princeton, and he gave up 11 hits and three runs in 6 2/3 innings as the Crimson lost the game and the crown...
...that would at least rate the Style section. But Harvard economist Juliet Schor's research shows that women have been eliminating half an hour of housework for every hour they work outside the home -- or up to 20 hours a week, which is the equivalent of a 50-ft. mound of unfolded laundry or a dust ball as large as a house...
Weekdays, Glew says he helped to excavate a tel, a mound in which newer cities have covered older cities for centuries...
...figures now, but it is expected that dozens of tiny towns will cease to exist. "Some people will absolutely leave -- the older people who lost everything are not going to go back," declares Roger Hannan, executive director of the Farm Resource Center, a mental-health outreach network, in Mound City, Illinois. "The prolonged nature of this flood is especially troublesome. We have little to refer to in the literature of disasters." But it is known that 60 years ago, after a summer of dust storms and drought, thousands of Midwesterners pulled up stakes and went west. This flood has been...