Word: stroking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...failed to go off and the starter's shout of "Row" caught the Freshman crew unawares, so that a bad crab was caught. A second time, Groton made a clean, getaway, but the 1928 oarsmen were still somewhat disorganized and ropped nearly half a length behind. Rowing at 42 strokes to the minute, they quickly caught up and with a lowered stroke had forged a length ahead by the halfway mark...
...ardent patriots who executed this grand stroke were particularly offended by Lampy's version of Washington crossing the Delaware as it appeared on the front cover. Yet so little did it impress them when they went about the work of confiscation that many inoffensive copies of the authentic Digest were carted to the police station. The other picture which the blue coats couldn't brook, they branded obscene. Of course it would be too much to expect honest and upright police commissioners to recognize the famous picture by Manet that has long hung in the Luxembourg. There may be some...
...Stroke, John Watts: 7, W. G. Salton-stall; 6, H. G. Cushing; 5, C. B. Hitchcock; 4, Walter Maynard: 3, J. G. Buckley; 2, Donald Murchie: Bow, F. L. Ames Jr.; cox, C. H. Pforzheimer...
...Crew X--Stroke, Robert Winthrop '26; 7, Kent Leavitt '26; 6, J. P. Hubbard '26; 5, G. R. Johnson '25; 4, C. F. Darlington '26; 3, Geoffrey Platt '27; 2, R. W. Ladd '27; bow, S. B. Kelly '25; cox., C. S. Heard...
...Crew Y--Stroke, J. H. Perkins '27; 7, J. R. Barry '27; 6, C. O'D. Iselin '26; 5, D. C. Gates '26; 4, W. J. Milde '25; 3, V. F. Righter '26; 2, Elisha Canning '26; bow, G. D. Krumbhaar '26; cox., H. P. Travis...