Word: stroking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lunch with William T. Tilden 2nd "Big Bill", Mr. Carens would call him, just like that who drops into Mower Hall, and engages in pillow fights with the first-string half back of the University eleven, who wakes up Mr. Bingham at midnight, who knows just what the Harvard stroke told the cox at the 3 3-4 mile mark, and who talks with Tad Jones before Fishwich has even finished dressing. Such a man, it is obvious, is no scribe, no more athletic back. He is an artist, an author, a man with important contacts...
...article such as this I can give no idea of the tremendous excitement which such races arouse. Their result is always in doubt. A "crab", or still worse, bad coxing may spell disaster; a dogged stroke in the boat ahead may stave off defeat with the enemy prow hanging above his rudder...
With high pomp and circumstance, a squad of Mexican officials and a squadron of mounted guards called at the U. S. Embassy in Mexico City for Ambassador-extraordinary-and-plenipotentiary Dwight Whitney Morrow. Clattering back through the streets, the cavalcade conducted Mr. Morrow to the presidential palace. On the stroke of noon, President Plutarco Elias Calles entered the ambassador's salon to receive Mr. Morrow's credentials, hear his speech and make reply. By coincidence, each spoke exactly 170 words, Mr. Morrow in English, President Calles in Spanish. President Calles asked Mr. Morrow to sit down...
...Crew O--Stroke, R. D. Bolster '28; 7, Austen Gray '30; 6, J. deW. Hubbard '29; 5, Donald Greer '28; 4, B. J. Harrison '29; 3, T. D. Howe Jr. '28; 2, Allerton Cushman '29; bow, E. Hamlin '29; cox., Lewis Wadsworth...
...Crew R--Stroke, L. D. Parker '30, 7, L. W. Dickey '30; 6, Thomas Eliot '28; 5, J. G. Lewis '30; 4, Morris Brownell '30; 3, William Moffatt '28; 2, Guthrie Willard '30; bow, Mark Hopkins '29; cox., G. G. Chase...