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Word: pulled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Junior crew, on the whole, still pull in the best form. Their stroke, however, has several faults. It hangs somewhat, and is not carried through; it is sluggish on the shoot, and the catch is not well marked. The dip is also too deep, time not well marked, and feather rather uneven. Bow, two, six, and eight clip, and three and five bucket. Bow, two, four, six, and seven do not reach out far enough, and three and five over-reach. No change has been made in the men since they were last published. The average weight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CREWS. | 5/2/1879 | See Source »

...will pull No. 2 on the Senior Crew in place of J. Swift...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 4/18/1879 | See Source »

...hard as Fine Arts 1. I had to design a costume for the crew; I gave them the most delicious pull-backs, and caps with cardinal ribbons, - each girl has a waterproof ulster, of course. Since the coxswain took Cooking 8 she has grown so fat that we've had to send her to Brown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A BISEXUAL SYMPOSIUM. | 3/21/1879 | See Source »

...pull down the curtains...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SENTIMENTAL. | 1/10/1879 | See Source »

...conceive why Harvard dawdles with the demands of Columbia and Cornell to be admitted to the annual race on the Thames. Cornell is a polytechnic and industrial school, with no more claims to 'university' than the Troy or Boston Institute, or the one at Hoboken. . . . If we are to pull with schools of technology, the latter institutes have the prior claim by age and standing; if with industrial schools, why, the Baldwin locomotive works of Philadelphia could turn out, with practice, a very attractive and formidable crew of apprentices. .... And yet Harvard will stand and dicker with institutions having...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 11/22/1878 | See Source »

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