Word: stroking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Princeton, N. J., May 7.--A full quarter length in the lead, with every man in time, blade-work clean, and stroke hard and powerful, the Orange and Black oarsmen, stroked by Leh, crossed the finish line ahead of the Navy and challenged its right to the title of world's champion this afternoon. About three lengths in the rear came the Harvard oarsmen, fighting hard but unavailingly against two such crews as the Navy and Princeton. For the power and speed of the Princeton crew has been grossly underestimated and it was against the nominal world champions...
Starting off near the dam, at the lower end of Lake Carnegie, the three first crews got off to good starts at a very high stroke. For a few seconds the Crimson seemed to have the lead, but the crews were all bunched. After a hundred yards the stroke lowered the beat with the Navy as low as 28 or 30 and using its tremendously long follow-through, while Princeton and Harvard held the beat higher at 32 or 34. As the shells cut through the water against the strong current and the slight head wind everyone was expecting...
...flip of a coin decided that the crew captained by Francis Mason would go. The line-up of the crew is as follows; Row, J. J. Phelan 2,J. G. Flint; 3. Francis Mason; 4. R. R. Fiero; 5. La Farge; 6. Frank Kennard; 7. W. B. Larkin; stroke L. B. Damon; cox.. John McKitrick...
...characters in "Star Dust" are real people for Miss Hurst has a way of pointing out the essential things of there make-up and with broad stroke can quickly conjure up a picture of person and personality that lives. Lilly herself--the reader can feel all her emotions, sympathizes with her; her mather, dear bossy old soul, whose religion is housekeeping, and her lovable and gentle old father, who make a bit of money in spite of himself out of the war. Her husband, the tupication of the respect able business and fireside homebody. The scores of people Lilly comes...
...half-mile race with the Rindge Technical four-oar yesterday the Freshman four, Crow 6, came out one and one-half lengths ahead, rowing a much higher or stroke the whole distance