Word: stroking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...West Indies and he headed the McGurk Commission. He would try out his Phage, but insisted that test patients be observed first. More hostility from McGurk, from the colonial government. When he finally had his way, Death, ironic in ghastly buboes, crept in arid throttled Leora. So that stroke for Science flew wide. Her death unmanned him, his figures went to pot, and the results McGurk published were flagrantly padded...
...Orange and Black eights have been fining up as follows: Orange--stroke, Clark; 7, Thorne; 6, Forrest; 5, Van Gytenbeek; 4, Ball; 3, Magee; 2, Williams; bow, Dyer, C.; cox:, Kennedy. Black--stroke, Altken; 7, Goodman; 6, Hayden; 5, Deemer; 4, McConthe; 3, Collins; 2, Thorpe; bow, Loeb. No cox has as yet been assigned to the Black Varsity...
...pound eight last year. Though the material on the whole is experienced, the 1928 coach has decided to make the change from the machine to the shells by having his proteges row in gigs for the present at least. The first Freshman crew is lining up as follows: Stroke, Stratford: 7, Langhorne; 6, Schaub; 5, Alexander; 4, Larse; 3. Wood; 2, Wilson; bow, Spruance; cox., Nevins
...Glenna Collett was put out by Miss Hadfield with a 20-foot putt on the 19th green. The field dwindled. At last there were only two golfers left. One was Mrs. Hurd and the other-Miss Wall of Oshkosh. No laughs disturbed her while she, with alert composure, played stroke for stroke against the veteran in the final round. She had redeemed the name of Oshkosh, but Mrs. Hurd, more experienced, defeated...
Does not such highly competitive machinery defeat at one stroke the real purpose of a higher institution of learning? Higher institutions of learning have lived through long ages, seen nations rise and fall, governments come and go in their real purpose to follow up truth. It does not seem to me that any such machinery carries torth the torch of truth on its way through the life of an individual in the life of society as a whole - can any business managership or other such goals so much sought do other than tend to lead one into narrowness from...