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Only slight differences mark a Harvard crew's style from that of any other coached by a Washington graduate, Most crews take an even pull all the way through every stroke, ending with a final tug before removing their oars from the water...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Long Training, Sheer Strength, and an Excellent Coach Give Harvard Great Varsities Every Year | 5/14/1949 | See Source »

...afternoon will feature, besides the out-of-season race complete with a Marryin' Sam at the finish line, what is described as a "Schmoo Hunt--finders keepers," hiking--"a free schmoo for every blister," a tug of war with Wellesleyites, a softball game with Simmons girls, sack races, and a 75 cent picnic supper, followed by a "songfest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Outing Club Goes Out On Picnic Tomorrow | 5/7/1949 | See Source »

...blurs a little, and the feelings of the son, his ex-wife and her new husband fog up. And her last-minute attempt to knit the son's tragedy to the world situation is a piece of synthetic, Freudian chop-logic as far-fetched as saying that a tug on an umbilical cord will ultimately release an atom bomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mother Danforth's Story | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

...Doxsee struck Cirrotta in the stomach. He took a step back and sat down on a divan," Tesreau said. "A couple of the guys began to tug at his sweater as if to rip it off him. He got up and apparently ordered the fellows to get out of his room...

Author: By Andrew E. Norman, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Dartmouth Death Case Gets Grand Jury Hearing May 18 | 3/22/1949 | See Source »

...Bermuda-bound airline pilot who emptied his father's ashes in flight. "That's what Dad wanted," the News said he said. "He wanted me to fly him to Bermuda, but I never got the chance. This was the only way . . ." And for a more solid tug at the heartstrings, there was a Harlem mother in tearful collapse after her daughter, little Carmelita Rodriguez, and her playmate had been killed by a coal truck in a "safe" play street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Back to Abnormal | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

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