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Word: pulls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...team did not pull at the Tech. games on Saturday, as it was refused entry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 3/1/1886 | See Source »

...team has decided not to pull at the Technology games...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 2/27/1886 | See Source »

...students of the College of Physicians and Surgeons are fond of getting the end seats in the lecture-room on the top floor of the building. Each of the semi-circular benches is covered with two long crimson cushions, and the practice is to pull one of the cushions toward an end seat, and turn a part of it under so as to make a pillow for the weary medical head...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 2/24/1886 | See Source »

...rather slow with his shoulders. He has no very marked faults and his great trouble is a lack of power and life in his stroke. No. 4 catches too hard, and then jerks his oar into his body instead of bringing it in with a steady pull. He is very slow in starting forward. No. 3 catches too hard and swings back too far. He does not use his shoulders well and is slow in starting forward. His stroke has little power in it. No. 2 pulls a ragged, uneven stroke. Each motion is separate and distinct...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Junior Crew. | 2/23/1886 | See Source »

...from her. They are at present rowing eighteen men, and all are trying for positions on the crew. They are undergoing systematic training, being coached while at work by some "'varsity" man. They row about twenty minutes every day, run a slow mile and a fast half mile, and pull the weights. Their movements at the weights are entirely different from those at use at Harvard; they have a greater variety of exercises, thus causing changes to be more frequent. Their training on the whole is more thorough than heretofore, and it would be well for the Harvard freshmen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Columbia Freshman Crew. | 2/22/1886 | See Source »

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