Word: strokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brueckel (Y) 5 4 50 free-style: Hutter (H) Perryman (Y) Barker (H) 6 3 Dive: Greenhood (H) Endweiss (Y) Danforth (Y) 5 4 100 free-style: Hutter (H) Curwen (H) Good (Y) 8 1 150 backstroke: Cummin (H) Burns (Y) J. Brueckel (Y) 5 4 200 breast stroke: Berizzi (H) Macionis (Y) Munroe (H) 6 3 440 free-style: Coleman (H) P. Brueckel (Y) Spendelow (Y) 5 4 400 free-style relay: Harvard (McKay, Griffin, Stowell, Kendall) 7 0 Total Score: 52 23 (First place, 5; second 3; third, 1. 5 points for medley; 7 points for free relay...
...pedals down to the floor. The Vagabond tactfully arranged his harem around him to form a feminine cushion in case of a crash. At once he realized he had made a blunder. Mary's Dubble-Bubble chewing gum now exploded in his face with every third or fourth stroke of her jaws, spraying him with minty mixture...
Perhaps the least contested position is stroke. Captain Spike Chace is practically a sure thing here if he continues as well as he has been going so far. Possible contenders are Bill Rowe who stroked his Freshman crew two years ago, Henry Curwen who stroked last year's Freshmen but is now tied up in his studies, and Barr Comstock who drew so much attention as stroke of the lively second Freshmen last Spring...
Coach Tom Bolles' tentative first beat, which also tried a brief spin earlier during one of the temporary thaws, took an easy run down to the head of the basin, with Captain Spike Chace at stroke, John Clark 7,Doug Erickson 6, John Radway 5, John Senior 4, Dudley Talbot 3, Chandler Hovey, Jr. 2, David Scull, bow, and George Shortlidge...
Then, at a stroke, the murder. Then, with a counterstroke, the murderers, using mealy-mouthed journalese, try to justify their crime. In this sudden contrast of shoddy human self-seeking with rapt spiritual self-abnegation, Eliot gets in a brutal and final punch...