Word: spinning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eliot House crew will stick to legitimate members after this. The other day they found themselves three men short just as they were about to journey forth on a trial spin. Three outsiders, who knew little or nothing about pulling an oar, were picked up and the eight started down the river toward the Ford Plant...
...crew was shifted this way and that. No expense was spared to get a pair of specially designed shells. Thinking the new shells too slim, coaches ordered another one, said they must have it in four days, got it. It was decided the crew was to take a night spin to get the feel of the water at flood tide. Precedent was broken when they went up to the course at Putney a week earlier than usual, a week ahead of Cambridge. Then bad luck began to break. Snow and biting cold set in. No. 7 poisoned his finger...
Just before dawn next morning, Lieut. Norman Burnett ran into a howling snow-storm on the Cleveland-Chicago route. The ceiling closed down and he missed a beacon. Then his gasoline line clogged and he went into a tight spin. He had no mail so he took to his parachute. In landing he fractured...
...Civil War, (the only war they recognize) has left them little changed. Indeed, the grizzled old deacons are constantly harking back to the good old days, and the occasional automobile seen in those parts is regarded with mild contempt by eyes which, in brighter days, have seen the Colonel spin swiftly past in his glittering coach and four...
...Sonja Henie, of Norway, world's champion woman figure skater: a title contest before the Norwegian royal family in which the U. S. champion, graceful Maribel Vinson of Boston, fell during a spin, landed in fifth place; at Oslo...