Word: stroking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...turned gray. When their progeny grew up and left home. Grandma and Dan'l began to go places and do things: "in '93, like everybody else," they went to the World's Fair in Chicago. But Dan'l was getting along. He had a stroke, then another; soon he was almost helpless. Grandma Brown used to wash his feet for him. "But he would say to me, 'I hate to have you wash my feet.' And I would answer, 'Why, that's according to the contract...
...among boys from bigger schools both in studies and athletics. The most unusual mind (Schuyler B. Jackson. 1922) that Princeton has had in years was awakened at Pomfret. Yale's Mallory and Harvard's Buell were Pomfret bred footballers of recent fame. From Pomfret to Harvard went a great stroke oar, George Appleton; for Pomfret, like Kent, is one of the few rowing schools...
...offices yesterday morning. He claimed that as far as he was concerned there would be no radical changes in the way crew was coached at Harvard and further stated that as a pupil of Jim Ten Eyck's at Syracuse, he did not pin his faith on any one stroke. "The fundamentals are the same everywhere," he said, "and the minor details of style will be altered to fit the men and the occasion...
...stroke of apoplexy in August...
Every day in Vienna men and women gather in groups of 50 at the house of an uncouth old fellow who dresses like a farmer. Standing respectfully in a circle, they strip to the waist, permit him to approach and stroke them with the tip of an "electric pencil." It crackles softly as it passes over their flesh. Last week the Austrian Government announced that Herr Valentin ("Electric Pencil') Zeileis had just paid his tax on an income of $30,000 for last year. Not exactly a charlatan, Herr Zeileis does not claim to cure the people he strokes...