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Word: stroke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four members of the Varsity squad are planning to enter a four in the Olympic trials at Princeton this summer. Stroked by Robert Cutler '85, captain and stroke of last year's Jayves, the boat includes Edward H. Bennett '87 as coxwain J. Paul Austin '87, Roger W. Cutler...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Townsend Is Crew manager and Jones His Assistant | 5/21/1936 | See Source »

Harry Locke was shifted from number 2 in the Seconds to take over the seat vacated by Cutler and, judging from his performance yesterday, is capable of swinging the metronome car although he has had no stroke experience...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BEANE OUT OF FIRST BOAT; CUTLER AT TWO | 5/19/1936 | See Source »

First change to be made in Varsity crew ranks since March 23 came yesterday when Coach Charlie Whiteside jerked Roger Cutler out of his position as stroke of the Jayvee boat and put him in Art Beane's place at 2 on the Varsity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BEANE OUT OF FIRST BOAT; CUTLER AT TWO | 5/19/1936 | See Source »

...Sergei Kalmikoff, who weighs 235 lb., sports a straw-colored beard, a closely-cropped skull. Out of the ring, his .favorite pastime is to parade down Broadway, dressed in a gold-braided Cossack tunic with cartridge belt, boots, an astrakhan hat. In the ring, his customary procedure is to stroke his beard pensively, glower at spectators. His favorite hold is the Russian Bear Hug, nothing more than an earnest attempt to squeeze the living daylights out of his opponent. Last week Wrestler Kalmikoff, an ardent Communist, took his $25,000 earnings, shaved his beard, sailed back to Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Baba & Behemoths | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

Lowell boat: stroke, Marks; 7, Locke; 6, Scott; 5, Leighton; 4, O'Conor; 3, Webster; 2, Tillinghast; bow, Eyans; cox, Boyd...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lowell Crew Noses Kirkland to Take Intramural Crown | 5/14/1936 | See Source »

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