Word: pull
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...teams from the Harvard Lacrosse Club and the Union Athletic Club, the Unions won easily in two straight heats, defeating their opponents almost as soon as the word "Heave" was given. It is, however, but just to the Lacrosse Club Team to state that they had been invited to pull against an inexperienced four, like themselves, to be chosen from the Union Lacrosse Club; and they were very much surprised to find, on appearing for the pull, that they were pitted against a practised Team, and one much heavier than their own, selected from the Union Athletic Club, instead...
...feature of the afternoon's programme. The conditions were, five men on a side, and two tugs out of three to decide. The teams were made up as follows: '82 - Chalfant, Lawrence (captain), Jennings, Perin, and Warren (anchor); '83 - Hammond (captain), Curtis, Kip, Morrison, and Sawyer (anchor). The first pull was won, after a sharp struggle, by '83, in 40 seconds, amidst great excitement. After a short rest the teams changed sides, and made ready for the second tug, which '82 secured by hard work in the same time as the previous one, 40 seconds. The final bout...
...place for everything, and everything in its place.' A man at Yale nails his slippers on the wall four feet up, and then all he has to do of an evening is to wheel up his easy-chair in front of them and pull out his meerschaum." - Amherst Student...
...pull a single scull...