Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There's a man behind the scenes who's working, and working mighty hard, to dust the dust off the diamond dusters to smooth off the rough edges, now that the team has advanced so far into the season. He's already done an excellent job. He's taken a green team, given them the golden wisdom of his long experience and produced a Green and Gold combination that we may well be proud...
Yesterday the eights took advantage of the smooth conditions in the Basin to paddle over the old course from St. Mary's street to the Harvard Bridge. The Jayvee and third University crews, stroked by P. H. Watts '31 and R. L. Pearson '31 respectively, went over the distance together at a relatively low beat, while the first string oarsmen paced by James Lawrence, Jr. '29, followed at a higher stroke. The crews then continued to the West Boston Bridge where several changes were made in the seating of the second and third eights...
...race will determine is hard to tell. Swaim is well-knit and has good endurance, but his stroking is too short and too erratic to be all that is desired in a good stroke man. Watts, on the other hand, is long in the water and rows a smooth, steady stroke, but is too lanky and light-built to have the reserve power at the finish of a race which is necessary for a good stroke oar when it comes to driving a boatload of oarsmen...
...crews were somewhat handicapped Monday and yesterday by the high winds but they have taken long rows and practice starts. There has been a visible improvement in both boats this week for the oarsmen have been working into smooth combinations...
...long, inch-wide strip of hide from a freshly killed rhinoceros. Let the strip age a little and toughen. Then have one of your black boys taper the kiboko, or sjamboke, down, smooth and polish it with a bit of broken glass. Grinning ingratiatingly, he will hand you a tawny whip. Just right for use on a blackamoor, in the opinion of most South African white men. The callous manner in which White Rancher Jaerl Nafte recently violated every rule and canon of kiboko etiquette was really the cause of his undoing...