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Word: strokes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coach Tom Bolles, winding up crew activity for the fall, started his five eights just below Cottage Farm Bridge, with the Leavitt unit pulling ahead and leading all the way to the finish opposite MIT's sailing pavilion. Stroke George Lodge held the winners' beat at about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leavitt's Eight Places First In Intra Varsity Crew Meet | 11/12/1948 | See Source »

Leading the respective crews will be John Hutchinson, stroke on last year's Junior Varsity eight; Arthur Rouner, who stroked last year's Freshman boat; Charles Rinner, Jayvee stroke early last season; Jim Homans, freshman stroke in 1947; and George Lodge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Intra-Squad Race Tomorrow Opens Crew Competition | 11/10/1948 | See Source »

...undecided, and somebody else said that he had to vote for Thurmond because Eiscuhower isn't running. And that winds up the poll's comic output, except that I forgot to say that Calvin Coolidge also got a vote, and just in case even this master stroke of wit leaves you glum, it at least should remind you that when Dorothy Parker heard that Coolidge had died, she asked "How can they tell...

Author: By Joel Raphaelson, | Title: Off The Cuff | 11/2/1948 | See Source »

Five veterans of the near-Olympic boat are back again--stroke Bill Curwen, Captain Frank Strong, Ted Reynolds, Don Felt, and Mike Scully. Or, putting it the other way round, there are blank spaces where Paul Knaplund, Jud Gale, and coxswain Sam Mantel once rowed...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Crew Drills for Next Spring | 10/8/1948 | See Source »

Starring Rita Hayworth in the "Loves of Carmen," was a stroke of genius. Filming it in technicolor was another flash of insight. The plot, the scenery and the music made a fine background...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "The Loves of Carmen" | 10/7/1948 | See Source »

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