Word: swivel
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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After having used the English style of rigging on their shells for three years, the crews of the University of Pennsylvania, at the suggestion of Coach Wright, will test out the American swivel oarlock system this spring. A new eight-oared shell fitted with swivel locks is being built, but the old shells rigged with thole pins will not yet be discarded...
...thole pin system of rigging long antedates the American style and has never been supplanted in England. It was revived in this country by Coach Guy Nickalls of the Yale crew, and has been used ever since by that college. If Coach Wright should decide that the swivel locks are more advantageous for his crew than the present system, Yale will be the only college in the United States which still holds to the thole pins Neither Columbia, Cornell, Princeton, nor the University has ever adopted the foreign rigging, but it was tried at Pennsylvania under the regime of Coach...
Pennsylvania oarsmen have ordered a new eight-oared shell from Davy, the boat builder of Cambridge. It will be of the swivel type and will embody a number of Coach Wright's own ideas. Last year Pennsylvania used the tholepin, but Wright has had more experience with the swivel, having been accustomed to this type of rigging when coaching the Argonaut Club of Canada. At present it is planned to let the oarsmen have two weeks practice on the Delaware before leaving for the final bit of training at Poughkeepsie. In this way Wright believes he will accustom...
...United States Navy. It is the first such balloon which has been constructed for the Navy. The balloon itself is 175 feet long, 35 feet, wide and 50 feet high, including the car. It is propelled by a 150 horse-power Sturtivant motor which drives two propellors of the swivel type. It is capable of carrying a crew of eight men and a useful load of two thousand pounds. The balloon can rise either from the water or the land. The dirigible is now being finished in the works of the Connecticut Aircraft Company in Portsmouth...
...were abroad shortly after the Harvard Hall bell ceased its matutinal jangling yesterday, saw the Yard invaded by a "horde of lusty Helots" armed with crow-bars and pickaxes; for their murderous intent upon Gore Hall was manifest. Those who have sat and read and writhed in its swivel seats, or waited while its alleged contents were sought form the cellar of Appleton or the garret of Conant, will pause to breathe the respectful sigh due its venerable three quarters of a century of existence. And thus passes Gothic Gore, former abode of ecumenic erudition and draughty discomfort...