Word: stroked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Daniel Garber is essentially a painter of countrysides−gentle and spacious landscapes touched with the glamor of an April reticence, the regretful mists of fading summer, old houses, lanes, bridges, windless leaves enchanting a forest avenue. He paints on a toned canvas with a short stroke, a small brush. Shining spots of canvas show through the paint. Notable is his portrait of a girl in blue mending her underwear out-of-doors in the ripple and shadow of sunlight and uneasy willow branches. Yet for all this iridescent preciosity, there is solidity of grouping, vigorous draughtmanship, broad effects...
...oarsman who had been in training only seven days had to he substituted at bow. Cambridge was not strong. Her eight sturdy rowers pulled strongly, smoothly; but there was in that boat a weakness in which, Oxford thought, Fortune might insert a wedge. That weakness was A. G. Wansborough, stroke. Thrice in the preceding week he had "caught a crab...
...Failed to raise the oar clear of the water on the recovery, or missed the water altogether when making a stroke...
...line-up of the winning Blue crew was as follows: Stroke, Watts; 7, Saltonstall; 6, Roberts; 5, Hitchcock; 4, Fox; 3, Gierasch; 2, Canfield; bow, Winthrop; cox., Pforzheimer...
Radical changes will be made in all boats during the week based on the showings of the crews in the race. The Blue crew, however, will probably not be shifted radically. It was by far the smoothest boat, and Watts at stroke kept the stroke low, beginning at 28 and falling back to a 24 or 25 during the balance of the race...