Word: stroking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tube led up to a barrel-shaped cylinder about an inch high from which on the other side a similar tube stretched to prick the chilly flesh of poor Mae Wahl. The doctor turned a switch and a plunger began to work in the cylinder. On the down stroke it sucked blood out of the veins of the seller; on the up stroke it pumped this same blood into the anemic lady. A metre on the side of the cylinder-much like the indicators on the ordinary red gasoline-pumps&151;registered plunger strokes, each transferring two cubic centimetres...
Died. Rev. William J. Leggett, 77, at Nyack, N. Y., of a paralytic stroke. In 1869 he was captain of the Rutgers eleven which played off with Princeton the first recorded game of U. S. collegiate football. At the time of his death he was Vice President of the U. S. Reformed Church...
...second eight, E. J. Canning '26 replaced John Watts '28 at stroke, as the latter has stopped rowing for the present on account of poor health. Canning's former seat at number 2 was taken by J. W. Dunlop '28. C. H. Pfortzheimer '28 coxed the first crew yesterday in place of W. E. Beer '28, who shifted temporarily to the second eight...
Tilden, Johnston, Richards, and Williams, who last year represented the United States in the Davis Cup matches, will all be flashed on the screen tonight. Each of the stars will be shown making all the ground, service, and volley strokes, and the motion is so slow that it is possible to see clearly how the different parts of each stroke are executed...
Blue Crew--Stroke, Isham Carpenter; 7, A. G. Thacher Jr.; 6, J. H. McKesson; 5, Everett Addoms Jr.; 4, G. W. Brewster; 3, Dean Chamberlain; 2, Edward Dane; bow, R. O. Bishop; cox., L. H. Seiff...