Word: spinning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coach Haines' Freshman and Combination eights took a similar spin at a lowhough their mileage was slightly less. Although Yale is favored in the Combination race, and a heavy favorite in the it is expected that both will make a better showing as improvement has been with both of them the last few weeks. Both Yale Varsity and Jayvee are leading as favorites for those races...
...Lewis's jaw with his elbow. After an hour and six minutes of grunting and thumping, both had reached the crisis of exhaustion in which serious wrestling matches almost always end. Shikat seized Lewis by his fat middle, tried to whirl him over his head in an airplane spin. This was what Lewis had been arduously waiting for. He had just enough strength left to seize Shikat's skull in his headlock, throw him down backward three times, fall on him the fourth time to win the match...
...June 16--Consistent with the theory that the week before the Yale race is the one in which the real work is done, and improvement made, the Varsity and Jayvee crews took an unusually hard workout this morning, followed by another stiff paddle in the afternoon. In the morning spin, the eights covered about seven miles in all, rowing down stream, while in the afternoon, for the first time this year, they rowed five miles upstream and back, almost to Norwich for a change of scenery...
...vertical wind tunnel through which smoke is poured around a suspended plane model, to expose the tricks of air currents causing the dread tailspin. Photographs indicated that, the prime obstacle to recovery from a spin is the "blanketing" of the rudder by the horizontal tail surfaces...
When the four Harvard crews which will entrain for Red Top on Sunday evening, go out for their paddle this afternoon, they will be taking their last spin on the Charles River this season...