Word: stroking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This outcry from the Demosthenes of Missouri, James A. Reed, was in vain. The Senate voted at tea time, precisely at the stroke of 4:00, and confirmed the Italian debt settlement, 54 to 33. Senator Reed, incensed, announced that he would move to reconsider, saying that it was unthinkable that the U. S. should accept Italian bonds worth $528,000.000* for a debt of $2,150,151,000. But those who had argued that the settlement was all that Italy was financially able to pay?that it was either so much or nothing?were ahead of him. Senator Fess...
...Freshman eight, which averages 183 pounds to the man, was in its initial race of the season, and did even better than expected. Coach Haines's crew rowed an average stroke of 30 yesterday and were able to keep ahead of the University boat, which was rowing at a rate of from 32 to 34 strokes to the minute...
...boat, though trailing almost from the start, rowed well yesterday. It was only the third day that it has rowed in its only the third day that it has rowed in its present order, and a marked improvement is looked for next week, when Captain Winthrop has been at stroke for more than three days...
Raising the stroke near the finish, Captain Winthrop's men drove steadily up on the Freshman boat, but the "beef trust," as the 1929 crew is nicknamed, was equal to the task and kept in the lead...
...Stroke, C. McK. Norton; 7, G. N. Saum; 6. B. J. Harrison; 5, Guy Murchee; 4, F. A. Clark; 3, Edward Hamlen; 2, W. T. Emmet; bow, James Lawrence; coxswain, Irving Neiman