Word: stroking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dash -dash -dash -dash." It was a code no man could have interpreted. But the pen made a stroke for a dot, left a blank for a dash, gradually moving to the right over the rotating cylinder. Those who watched saw black masses shape into a cap, an eye, a mustache, another eye, a shadow by the nose-it was a portrait of Admiral Robert E. Coontz, U. S. N., then in Hawaii serving as umpire in the U. S. "war game" (TIME, May 4, 11, ARMY & NAVY). When his picture was finished, the pen began again, sketched some...
...MacDonald had reported that he had made an extract of the liver, injected it in the veins of 33 patients suffering from high blood pressure, succeeded in lowering the pressures of their systolic blood (pressure as the heart contracts on its out-pumping stroke) from an average of 204 mm. to 142 mm. The diastolic (heart expansion or intake stroke) pressures had come down from an average...
After getting off to a poor start, the University 150-pound crew quickly settled down to a long, smooth stroke and won a decisive victory over the Princeton and Yale 150-pound boats on the Housatonic at Derby Saturday. The time of the winning Crimson shell was seven minutes and 25 seconds for the Henley distance of one and five-sixteenths miles. Princeton was a little less than two lengths behind the University, rowing the course in seven minutes and 29 seconds, while Yale followed a length behind Princeton...
Shells Match Stroke For Stroke...
Merrill was content with rowing stroke for stroke with Princeton down the course. Both crews held the beat at a steady thirty-two, with Harvard pulling gradually ahead of Princeton and Yale slipping back. Nearing the one and one-quarter mile mark Harper called for the final spurt and open water began to show between the two leading shells. As the finish line was reached. Merrill's crew was fast drawing away...