Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...easing up on the distance, Bolles' theory being not to drive a crew through increasingly difficult workouts which might leave it stale on race day, but to bring it along so that it is at a mental and physical peak just for the hour of the long pull...
...they-drop school of though. While Harvard crewmen are allowed to sit around and dissipate most of the winter, the hardy Elis are out on the river, simulating Washington crossing the Delaware. Theoretically, this will make them strong to the point of invincibility come the Harvard-Yale four mile pull in 'late June. It doesn't seem...
...Army is getting ready to pull out of Korea by the end of next month. The 7,500 occupation troops will be transferred to Japan, Hawaii and the U.S. Withdrawal raises the uneasy question of South Korea's future; its U.S.-sponsored government faces a strong Communist regime which the Red army left behind when it withdrew last December from the area north of the 38th parallel. To allay South Korean jitters, the U.S. Army is leaving a large part of its equipment, including arms, ammunitions and transports, to the young South Korean army...
Harvard's 1914 crew, which started the rowing world by winning the Grand Challenge Cup in the Henley Regatta on the Thames that year, will gather tomorrow for its thirty-fifth reunion, a feature of which will be a short "pull" on the Charles...
...chance in Madison Square Garden. The hard-boiled Garden crowd went wild as Vince savagely carved up clever old Tony Pellone and knocked him out in the seventh round. Sportwriters compared him io Petrolic, even to Jack Dempsey, hailed him as a new, slashing pug who might pull boxing out of the doldrums...