Word: stroking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This change of opinion can certainly be attributed to the vigor and spirit with which the new rowing system has been installed. The days when five different types of stroke were being taught on the Charles, and when fall crew practice was less important than spring football have definitely passed, to the regret of none. The character of the winter training which comes to an end today is indicative of a new policy that is intended to develop available material into the finest possible crews...
...close one of the most remarkable winter training periods in many years. In no past winter season has hard work been so prevalent and daily running so emphasized. When the indoor work began shortly before Christmas, the majority of the crew men had only partially mastered the stroke introduced by Coach Stevens. At present, as the winter season closes, the men have progressed much farther toward the new standard...
...Stroke Is Introduced In Fall
...President of the National Agrarian League and a leading reactionary member of the Reichstag, went on a visit to the ex-Crown Prince at Oels. He was to have delivered a report on German agrarian sentiment to His (ex) Royal Highness, but he was rendered unconscious by an apoplectic stroke from which he died...
Died. Henry Garland Dupre, 50, Representative from Louisiana, "handsomest man in Congress"; at Washington, from a stroke of apoplexy...