Word: stroking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Doctor, if you say I must cancel the trip." But Dr. Grayson insisted quietly; the trip was cancelled; the President rose from his bed and walked to his automobile without assistance; the party returned to Washington. For several days Mr. Wilson rested absolutely. His condition improved. Then suddenly the stroke came. At 4 a.m. on Oct. 5, 1919, Mrs. Wilson heard the President calling weakly. She rushed to him and called Dr. Grayson. Mr. Wilson's left leg had crumpled beneath him and he lay on the floor of his bathroom. The doctor eased the President at full length...
Bishop Manning's sermon was neither a definition nor a defense of the faith; it was an appeal to the loyalty of the faithful; an honest stroke, well aimed, stoutly delivered; good churchmanship...
...prosperity of the life insurance companies is due to several causes. Higher wages scales have augmented the number of individual policy holders and increased the amounts of life insurance carried by them. Also, the group insurance idea has proved popular; last year the Southern Pacific Railroad at one stroke insured 80,000 employees...
...chump could do that. On the seven o'clock bell, I use the old English stroke that has been used here since the college was founded. It took me three months of practice with the bell padded with rags to learn that stroke. First I ring it a few times to get it swinging. Then when it reaches the point where it is almost upside down but doesn't quite go over, I hold it there for ten seconds. I let it ring three times, and then hold on the other side for ten seconds, keeping this up for five...
...seven o'clock requires the most difficult technique--the English stroke, which may appear somewhat complicated to the uninitiated. The number of strokes at this hour however is not specified and conflicting reports estimate it at from fifty to seventy-two. The significant thing about the seven o'clock bell is that the bellringer dislikes it at least as much as do the students. The average undergraduate soon acquires the habit of sleeping tranquilly until about eight-thirty, bell or no bell--but there is the poor bellringer, tugging away at the stubborn rope, shortly after the coldest hour...