Word: stroking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...meter swim, back stroke, for women: Sybil Bauer of Chicago...
With the price of bread running into billions a loaf the German people have had to get used to counting in thousands of billions. This, according to some German physicians, brought on a new nervous disease known as "zero stroke," or "cipher stroke," which may, however, be classed with neuritis as cipheritis...
...past four years the water in the tank has not been propelled by motor. This year a speed of four or five miles per hour is expected, which will increase the possible stroke from 16 to about 28 per minute...
...hours of late autumn work. The daily schedule now calls for five four-oared combinations, the football men being bunched in one so that attention may be better concentrated on the particular faults which they may show as a result of their lack of previous training in the Stevens stroke...
Still another reason for the use of the four-oar unit is the fact that, while the movements are of course identical with those employed in an eight, the difficulty of each separate element of the stroke is increased to a notable extent. A four is rigged lower and so requires finer manipulation of the oar to free it from the water at the finish. A four is harder to propel than an eight. And most important of all, the problem of balance, with only two oars on a side, is magnified beyond all proportion to that required...