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Word: stroke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...oldtime bassos. Sarah J. Grimes still sells hats, Anna E. Bolton was retired lately from the china department. Missing at last week's performance was Tenor Carl Kjellberg, the Chorus librarian who works in the supply room. So excited was he about the concert that he had a stroke just before the curtain rose, had to be hospitalized. While there he received a letter from Founder Towsley, who makes a practice of writing to every chorister who is ill. Many of his singers have better voices than jobs in the store...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Chicago Choristers | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

...died, and in how pitiful and futile a fashion; they must be made to understand that it was no deed of heroism or sacrifice, that had robbed them of two young men who would have comforted them in their old age; it was an act of villainy, and a stroke of chance." But when he sees the old couple in their garden he understands that illusion is all that is left them. His heart fails him, he goes away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Western Front | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

Junior Varsity-stroke, Roger W. Cutler Jr. '37; 7, Peter T. Brooks '38; 6, Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. '37; 5, John H. Gardner '38; 4, James E. Gardner 36; 3, Henry Lloyd '37; 2, Reginald D. Kernan '36; bow, William C. Haskins '37; and cox, Edward T. White...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CREWS GET FIRST CHANCE OF SEASON IN COMPTON RACES | 5/2/1936 | See Source »

...Varsity-stroke, James F. Chace '38; 7, Raymond S. Clark '36 (Captain); 6, John R. Clark '38; 5, Leonard P. Eliel '36; 4, Douglas Erickson '38; 3, Robert S. Wolcott '36; 2, Arthur Beane '36; bow, J. Paul Austin '37; and cox, Edward H. Bennett...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CREWS GET FIRST CHANCE OF SEASON IN COMPTON RACES | 5/2/1936 | See Source »

...spite of the temporary loss of Chaco, Varsity stroke, the outcome of the Compton Cup regatta with M.I.T. next Saturday is viewed by Nowell Boat House habitues with optimism, Chaco, due to a cold, was unable to set the beat yesterday and Roger Cutler, second string timer, took over the job. Cutler will swing the Varsity oar again today until Chaco's recovery, anticipated by the doctor on Wednesday, puts him back at stroke in the second boat. In the Jayvees yesterday Kernan went forward to pull the number two sweep and Roosevelt returned to his post...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARSITY EIGHT WILL GET FIRST TEST THIS SATURDAY ON CHARLES | 4/28/1936 | See Source »

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