Word: strokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Haines has what he thinks will be a strong boat this year, but just like the varsity hevies' first eight, six of the slides are filled by upstart sophomores who have beaten out two of the four returning lettermen. Stroke Jack Smith and number five Dave Clark are the only returness...
Reading from how up, the current number one boat is composed of Sam Allen, Bob Menslage, John Bordman, Dick Grosvenor, Dave Clark, Sutton Potter, Ted Barrett, stroke Smith, and cox Chuck Osborne. Three of these men--Allen, Menslage, and Barret--had never rowed in a shell before coming to Harvard...
Great men, beneath some awful stroke...
...permanently on the idea of opportunity in a capitalist society. A former boss of his remembers Bevan as a young miner in the Welsh seams. "He was a bad little brat," that man recalls. "He'd lie down right there beside the tubs rather than do one stroke over what was absolutely necessary to earn his minimum wage. Aroused other lads to do the same. 'Why should we sweat our guts out to fill capitalist bellies?' he'd say. You could do nothing with...
...vacation-time grind is not merely an endurance test. The steady training enables the strokes to raise their cadence to racing conditions, and it is then that the true varsity material emerges and the 20-stroke Apollos fade into obscurity...