Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Poughkeepsie bridge, Rhymer was leading. Behind Woodworth came a splash, then silence; the third boat had tipped over, must have hit a wave. At West Point, Rhymer ducked in for gas. All right, thought Woodworth, pull in with him. There's the gas pumped out into the feeder, ready on the dock...
Since 1885 the C. P. R. has expanded by land and sea. Its assets exceed $1,371,000,000. Yet they are understated if anything. Its main Montreal-Vancouver line runs 2,893.6 miles, but the 2,044 C. P. R. locomotives pull freight and passengers over 22,438 miles of track, including the 4,379 miles of the controlled Minneapolis. St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Ry. ("Soo" Line). Much of its equipment is made in its 200 acre Angus Shops at Montreal...
With the Basin unusually placid and favorable for even rowing, the victorious oarsmen swept down the stretch to the finish flags in the fast time of 9 minutes, 58 seconds. Throughout the race the winning eight coordinated well, pulling a hard, fast stroke with little checking Parker setting his men to a long pull early in the race...
Columbia v. Yale v. Pennsylvania. Coach Ed Leader of Yale had plenty of good men to pull the Alaskan cedar oars, supposed to be tougher and springier than spruce, with which he had rigged out his shells this year. It is a heavy crew, too, averaging more than 185 Ib.; Leader's main problem was to find a stroke. Those able strokes, Arthur Palmer Jr. and Woodruff Tappen, had graduated and there was no one else in sight. He decided after elaborate trials that long-legged Robert Goodale was more dependable than Herbert Shepard, who stroked last year...
...life and loves. The book's scheme is simple, must have been fun for the author. It consists of alternating Viereck verse and Viereck prose, chronologically arranged, the prose a commentary on the verse. If you don't mind getting your fingers a little greasy you may pull out many a ponderous plum from this fat Teutonic pudding. "The Hohenzollern family seems to have a talent for writing as well as for ruling. . . . My great-great-grand-uncle, Frederick the Great. . . ." Hohenzollern Viereck, it appears, has also been, if not a great ladies' man, at least...