Word: rowe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Massey's prediction was fulfilled at last night's performance of the much discussed play. The little playhouse on Charles Street was filled to its capacity long before the performance began. On Monday evening there had been but a scattering audience, some 50 or more bona fide spectators, a row of newspaper reporters, and Mayor Curley's investigating party, which consisted, in addition to the mayors of Boston and Cambridge, of Chief Justice Wilbur Bolster, Police Commissioner Herbert A. Wilson, and John M. Casey, city censor and clerk in the mayor's office...
Yesterday, crews A and B rowed about eight miles, but according to Coach Stevens, as soon as the weather moderates, a 10 to 15-mile row will be the daily fare of the first three crews...
...news that the Columbia crews are to practice in secret is exceedingly mystifying; it causes one to suspect some unusual motive--unless indeed the Columbia oarsmen have decided to row frontward a la Chesapeake Bay or to adopt some other equally revolutionary stroke. It has been suggested that this is a result of the all-pervasive influence of Mr. Percy Haughton, who like most sorcerers accomplishes his greatest miracles in an atmosphere of secrecy. But a clue to an even more satisfactory reason is furnished by the news that London's riverside flappers had to be dispersed by the "bobbies...
...with one leg wanted to row," he continued, "so we sent him to Weld boathouse, fitted up a special shell for him, weighted it accurately, and during the entire season the man took his exercise that way. There have been many cases of infantile paralysis where men have been greatly benefited by treatment. In one instance a young man who could hardly keep his feet if he was even slightly pushed, has taken up boxing under Coach Shevlin, and has become so proficient that he is entered for the University tournament in the near future. Another man with...
...row of statues of bulls, three feet high, made of thin copper plates over a wooden core. Their horns were of gold...