Word: pulled
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Captains shall toss for choice of sides before each pull...
...same two teams pull more than once during the day, they shall change ends at each successive pull...
...what is called a boating-man, that is, I saunter down to the club-house every afternoon, select a shell, and try to select an oar - oarful task - from the buttonless, broken-bladed specimens now on exhibition; then I venture out for an hour's pull, returning in time to take a shower-bath, to dress, and to arrive at Memorial Hall about six o'clock. By that time the rare beef has all disappeared, and the waiters are generally hidden behind that mysterious screen where there are so many "evidences of things known, but unseen...
Last Wednesday I entered the dining-hall with a firm step and a heavy appetite. I had been invigorated by a long pull at the oar and a short one at the bar. Smiling with satisfaction, I passed by tables laden with oranges and roast turkey. I determined to order turkey. I like...
...first quarter-mile Harvard was rowing 36 to the minute, and Yale was three lengths astern, pulling 33. Yale kept a slow stroke during the entire race, and it was evident to any one who watched their rowing that they had not broken themselves of a bad habit of pausing, or "hanging" at the beginning of the stroke. For the next half-mile Harvard kept the same stroke; but at the end of the third quarter, when the crimson was four lengths ahead of the blue, they slackened to 34 strokes per minute, while Yale was rowing...