Word: trunkful
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...Alexander '87, was recently the recipient of a handsome sole-leather trunk from the '93 crew...
...BARDEEN, Sec.A cat-boat now being made in New York, has the unusual dimensions of 41 feet over all, 35 feet on the water line, 14 feet beam, 7 feet 6 inches depth. Her cabin trunk is 19 feet long by 8 feet 6 inches wide...
...great superiority of this system over that of this year's Harvard crew is on the recover. The pose of the trunk is free, open and erect. The oar is feathered with the wrists; the hands are shot away at once in the same plane with the arms, and with the assistance of the powerful muscles of the shoulder, while the arms quickly resume their proper place. The ease and rapidity of these actions increase the speed and control the equilibrium. The muscles are exerted equally, and the erect trunk permits the lungs to be filled with deep draughts...
...present Harvard system the finish is very poor. The trunk is doubt led up, the shoulders are rounded and breathing is not free. The boat's impetus is interrupted by the labored action of feathering with the outside forearm and elbow and by the "sudden rush forward of the arms and trunk" after feathering. The whole weight of the rowing crew is shifted aft together, with the result that the stern is buried and the impetus again interrupted at the very moment when every extra ounce of weight tells, while the oarsman is brought to the full reach...
...sliding seat equalizes the men in the boat who differ one from the other in length of trunk and limbs, permitting a man with a short reach to slide a little further than another with long arms, so to catch the water at the same angle and pull through a stroke of the same length. Without the slide no amount of rowing together would equalize the stroke; the short man would have to catch later or finish later than the long man, the result of which is, of course, unsteadiness in the boat and diminution of speed; for racing craft...