Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most startling of all, the War Secretary on one day promoted 2,000 army officers. Mr. Hore-Belisha's pen stroke will cost the British taxpayer $1,800.000 additional the first year in increased officers' pay, later $3,000,000 annually. Under the new regulations "all reasonably competent officers" can expect to serve at least ten years with the rank and pay of major, after which the less competent majors will be given a de luxe bums' rush out of the army, retiring at the early age of 47 to live for the rest of their lives...
...from the start for a higher average of professional competence. Apparent reason: making a living is harder in Chicago, more first-raters rate relief. Last week's 12,000 visitors, sauntering down the nine cool galleries of the Institute's east wing, found scarcely a boondoggling brush stroke...
...Battling Frank III crossed the finish line at 5 p. m., well ahead of all opposition, rowing in high fifties. Stroke Oar Ethel doing well...
...does everything wrong," muttered experts and dubs alike. Rowing an extremely high stroke (36 to 45 a minute, compared to an average sculler's 28 to 32), Joe Burk, who weighs 195 lb. and has arms like piano legs, propels his shell with an unorthodox short jerk of his arms and a quick kick of his legs, sits up almost straight at the end of each stroke. This freak style he developed two years ago on New Jersey's Rancocas Creek, hard by his father's fruit farm, after rowing in orthodox fashion on the University...
...time was 20 min. 20 sec., a full 18 seconds slower than the upstream record which Harvard set last year, but the 50,000 spectators who witnessed the race agreed that they had seen one of the finest crews in rowing history and one of the greatest stroke oars of all time. Spike Chace, son of a Park Avenue physician, rowing his last race for Harvard, was the hero of the day. His name was bracketed with that of William ("Foxey") Bancroft (1878) and Gerry ("Killer") Cassedy (1933), the only two other oarsmen in Harvard annals who ever...