Word: straps
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...rowing-weight used in his time was very different from the one in use now. A thousand strokes a day at the hydraulic machines used by our crew necessarily brings out the pluck and endurance of the candidates for the boat. Pulling at an iron weight attached to a strap was a different thing, and might well have the effect our correspondent fears. An extract from an English paper on the construction of racing-boats, which accompanied the letter, but which was too long for insertion in our columns, we have banded to the captain of the University crew...