Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stage, and pithy summings-up-generalizations like a bold sweeping together of muscular arms. In telling how Nazi Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop had been entertained at No. 10 Downing Street the day Austria was invaded by the Nazis, Churchill's finis to the episode is like an ax-stroke: "This was the last time I saw Herr von Ribbentrop before he was hanged...
Bucking a strong wind, Yale's eight raced on even terms with Harvard for more than half of the Henley distance of one and five-sixteenths miles. The Bulldogs, then unable to keep up their high stroke, finally fell behind...
...Varsity 150's boatings: Stroke, Smith; 7, Dowd; 6, Evarts; 5, Clark; 4, Roosevelt; 3, G. Hall; 2, A. Hall; Bow, Erhard; Cox, Kregar...
...downstream for the start of the last heat of the afternoon, Winthrop's stroke "Dunc" McCollester broke his oar in a fit of youthful exhuberance, delaying the race till the late supper hour. It proved to be an ill omen for hapless Dudley's octet, which chopped its way past the white flag roughly a minute after Winthrop...
Harvard Freshman 150's: stroke, Wells; 7, Barrett; 6, Potter; 5, Day; 4, Grosvenor; 3, Bordman; 2, Monslage; bow, Allen; cox, Osborno