Word: spinned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With tide and weather both favorable at Fort Point Channel yesterday afternoon, Coach Frank Muller had all four University crews out for a protracted spin following their enforced absence from open water work the latter part of last week...
...coxswain's seat of the seconds. The water of Fort Point Channel was eceptionally smooth and free from floating ice, an unobstructed stretch of nearly a mile being available. The two crews paddled side by side over the first mile matching each other stroke for stroke. After this preliminary spin Coach Muller took the second eight down stream for half a mile and sent the first crew back over the half-mile upstream course. Over two miles were covered altogether...
...those periods in life or history in which general events stimulate the imaginative faculties by their very nature. We have seen this ever since the twentieth century began. We had first the motor car with its tremendous enhancement of life. Every man who took a twenty or thirty mile spin had his imaginative range broadened. He had less need to sit by the fire and read an imaginative book. By the time the motor car had ceased to be a novelty, the Great War came on, making all imaginative efforts seem thin and pale. Except to get away from...
These are great days in Gloucester. Cod is king again, and supreme as he has not been since before the days of the canning factories. All the old salts have turned out to spin yarns with their visitors from Nova Scotia, and no one who ever displayed special prowess with cod has been permitted to hide his light under a bushel. Not only the technique of sailing and the merits of different types of schooners but all the details of the fisherman's trade have been recited to willing and unwilling audiences, and boasts of great achievements have been brazenly...
Following a brief preliminary talk in which plans for the autumn were presented in some detail, Coach Muller sent his two crews out for a short spin and followed the shells down-stream in the coaching launch. Nothing of a strenuous nature was attempted, the main emphasis being placed on balance and getting the men accustomed to the new combination. The seating was as follows...