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Word: sitting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...miles. The "time" has improved during the past two weeks, but the men are not well together on the shoot of the hands and the slide forward. Some of the men fail to get the proper recover. Loring reaches forward too much with his shoulders, does not sit up well at the finish, and is inclined to "settle." He shoots his hands quickly, but lets his body follow too fast. Legate fails to get enough body reach forward, does not always pull his oar "home," and, although improving, does not get his arms out straight at the beginning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CREW. | 1/26/1877 | See Source »

...English rowing differs from American, and is considered by Englishmen of great importance. Schwartz at present does the recover better than the rest of the men. No. 6 (W. M. Le Moyne) does not keep his back straight, "buckets," fails to get enough reach with his back, does not sit up well at the finish, at times goes back too far, and raises his hands in the middle of the stroke. He pulls hard, and is capable, from his experience, of making a powerful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CREW. | 1/26/1877 | See Source »

...serious objection to the innovation. The present Senior Class numbers 192; deducting a dozen as an allowance for those who will pass degree-less from these halls, 180 will graduate; 180 X 3 1/2 minutes = 10 1/2 hours, which is rather a long time for men to sit listening to "parts," - and men, too, who have generally been thought to be somewhat interested in the dinner which occurs on that day. For their own interest the "tyrants and oppressors" ought to reconsider their action...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 1/12/1877 | See Source »

...room about twenty-five times a day on the average to ask me where my chum is, or to ask my chum where I am, or to ask us both where some one else is. When he has found out he goes contentedly back to his room, to sit down and think about it, I suppose. He don't want to see the man he asks for, not at all. It is only his consuming thirst for knowledge that makes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A COLLEGE CHARACTER. | 12/4/1876 | See Source »

...sit down and decipher the old scrap, a la Champollion. Here's a convenient tomb for a sofa. Great gad! think of sitting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD COLLEGE. | 6/23/1876 | See Source »

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