Word: spinned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the morning spin, Coach Stevens again took a seat in a shell in order better to illustrate the particular faults he was having difficulty pointing out from the launch. At seat seven in the second boat, the Head Coach spent practically all of the time devoted to the early row. The University shell remained close to the Second boat, where Coach Stevens directed his coaching activities for the benefit of oarsmen in both eights...
...that the men may be thoroughly familiar with the weather conditions before the race. This morning, there was no morning row because of the fact that the float was not in position and low tide prevented moving it until the afternoon. The University eight went for a two-mile spin this afternoon, however, going to the submarine base and back. The Freshman eight also had its first spin on the Thames...
...meeting of the first Freshman crew after a practice spin yesterday afternoon, John Watts of Morristown, N. J., was elected captain of the 1928 crew. Watts prepared at St. Paul's, where he rowed as stroke of the school crew for three years...
Three Pennsylvania crews had their first spin on the Charles yesterday at 12.30 o'clock in preparation for the Harvard-Cornell-Pennsylvania-M. I. T. regatta tomorrow. The Red and Blue eights took the water again at 5.30 o'clock in the afternoon, and went over the course for the first time...
...England: When an airplane is forced to too great an angle to the wind, it loses speed and lateral control, stalls. A spin, an accident, is likely to result. Officials of the British Air Ministry watched a pilot mount in an Avro biplane fitted with Handley Page slots. He twisted into the worst wind-angle, came almost to a standstill. But here the ailerons (auxiliary wingtips) interconnected with the slots (which provided an auxiliary passage for the air at the front portion of the wing) maintained control until the pilot resumed a normal progress...