Word: pull
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...college education. Thus both employer and apprentice join in running down a career which is as full of promise for an highly educated man as for the graduate from the High School. One of the thinkers of the century has said that "a man of education will pull a rope better than a common seaman, at the end of a long voyage," and this principle applies as well to business as to nautical life...
...used in this row for the first time this year, but the distance allowed to each man was limited to a few inches. The last row before breaking up, was taken on Saturday morning in a driving rain storm. Form that time until Wednesday afternoon by a four-mile pull in the harbor. All the coaching was done by Mr. Hull from the launch. The positions were occupied as follows...
...first race with Yale was won after only four days' practice. To-day we see races planned a year ahead, men practising an hour every day, rowing on artificial machines, running and exercising with weights and dumb-bells. Then, they trusted to their strength and endurance only, to pull their boat ahead of their New Haven rivals. Now, the Harvard stroke, making a boat-load of men act in as perfect union as a machine, has revolutionized the art of rowing, and has placed it in the best of the sciences...
...will probably take a seat in the boat on his return. The individual faults of the men are the following: No. 1 faces his oar too much and dips too deep; No. 2 also faces his oar too much; No. 3 clips and swings in; No. 4 does not pull his oar through; No. 5 settles at the finish; No. 6 takes too deep a dip; No. 7 hangs at the full reach; stroke meets and allows his oar to sliver...
...freshman crew, more than any other, shows the need of a regular coach. The crew is still rowing on stationary seats, and slowly learning how to pull the oar blades through the water. The crew can hardly be expected to take better than fourth place in the class races. There is, however, good material in the two eights for a crew, which ought to be in good shape by the time of the race with the Columbia freshman crew...