Word: stroking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Crew A.--Bow, V. F. Righter; 2, F. P. Weymer; 3, Richard Trimble Jr.; 4, Albert Tilt Jr.; 5, C. H. Bradford; 6, C. F. Darlington Jr.; 7, D. H. Leavitt; stroke, J. W. Adie; coxswain, A. M. Carrillo...
...Story. Mr. Pinney lived in a stifling suburb, did his inadequate best in the fancy goods business, lost a good deal at poker, ate three meals a day, drank coffee with a mustache cup, came perilously close to the verge of bankruptcy, escaped by a stroke of luck?and that...
Gustav Holst's "Dirge of Two Veterans", the words of which were written by Walt Whitman, was the most noteworthy number of the evening. Dr. Davison's inclusion of brasses and drums in this piece was a stroke of genius. As an example of impressionistic music, it is not to be matched in the field of choral singing...
...Watertown Bridge and down into the basin for a total of over ten miles. The practice for the most part consisted of easy rowing, Coach Muller paying a great deal of attention to form, but there were a few short stretches where the pace was kept at a high stroke...
...make an English holiday when the Dark Blue crew, with two Americans in the boat, defeated Cambridge in the Thames classic, and the Oxford track team, also with two Americans, took the annual track meet 7 events to 4. W. P. Mellen, of New York-age 20, weight 155-stroke of the Oxford crew, was the hero of the four-mile drama on the Thames. Mellen sat in his first shell at Middlesex School and received his earliest training under Dr. R. Heber Howe, recently resigned as director of rowing at Harvard. He was the smallest man in either boat...