Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Columbia crews had their initial workout yesterday morning, rowing down to Harvard Bridge and back. In the afternoon they rowed the one and three quarter mile course to the Subway Bridge. Coach Miller took his two contains over the course in a launch after the morning pull...
...Exeter four-oared crews swept far ahead of the two 1927 crews from Harvard Saturday afternoon as each finished the half mile pull over the Squamscott course nearly three lengths ahead of the respective Crimson boat...
...until 11.30 o'clock last Monday morning that the two shells touched water, when the eights left the Philadelphia Barge Club for an eight mile pull under ideal weather conditions. By 3.30 the crews were again on the water...
...Tuesday, Coach Stevens began individual instruction in earnest. Not satisfied with the exhibition of Crew B the day before, he first took the seat of A. L. Hobson '24 at number seven and later replaced Elisha Canning '26 at stroke. In the afternoon, during the second eight-mile pull for the day, he spent some time in Captain Henry's place in the first shell. It was during this workout that the first spurt of the year save the first shell a half length lead over a short distance...
...they will be accused of being 'political.' They are dodging a clear duty. . . . Corruption in high places is revolting, but the condition that will prove fatal to this country is lethargy in local government; deterioration and graft in the police force of your city; leniency and political pull in state and county courts, and indifference and lack of personal possessory pride on the part of each citizen in the affairs of his local government...