Word: stroking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Different methods of teaching the technique of various strokes, themselves and finally great races in which the differences in stroke won or lost, came in for careful treatment by Coach Stevens After scoring the journalistic inaccuracy of a Boston paper which claimed that University crews were being taught "the Washington stroke," be stated that the stroke now being taught at Newell Boat house is the best be knows of and is hardly to be compared with others...
Sunday. Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit.* But for the moment it is a trifle depressing. Suzanne and the Baron came down like wolves on the fold and whipped us to a standstill, 6-1, 6-2. It was a terrific, savage match. We played our best, every stroke. The reporters said C. F. looked like Jack Dempsey smashing away at the net with his jaw way out. And that I was pale with concentration. Perhaps I was foolish to change from driving to lobbing against Suzanne, but it seemed best at the time. She was like a silk whirlwind...
Died. Dr. Adolf Passow, famed German ear specialist, immediately after having performed an operation for ear trouble upon former Kaiser Wilhelm; in a hospital at Utrecht, Holland, whither he had been rushed from Doorn, after suffering "a stroke...
Then he stepped off the stage. The induction of Mr. Walker was gradual. He took the oath of office three days in advance in order that there might be no hiatus in the mayoralty (his term technically began on the stroke of 12:00 on New Year's Eve). The ceremony was attended by some 200 friends. The mayor elect was an hour and a half late for the ceremony because he had been attending a funeral...
Died. Carroll Smalley Page, 82, at Hyde Park, Vt., of a stroke of paralysis. He was from 1917 to 1923 the "oldest member of the U. S. Senate"; famed "Stormy Petrel of Vermont Politics" and one-time Governor of Vermont (1890-1892); noted senatorial champion of "a big navy...