Word: waterous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...taste was more than usually sensitive, kept fine and discriminating by the restraint in which he held it. Indeed, all his senses, except sight, were acute. The wine he drank was the delicate unresinated Greek wine,--Corinthian, or Chian, or Cyprian; the amount of water to be mixed with each being carefully debated and employed. Each winter a cask was sent him from a special vineyard on the heights of Corinth, and occasioned something like a general rejoicing in Cambridge, so widely were its flavourous contents distributed...
...crews got off from the starting line and rowed over the first half mile of the course with all three crews abreast. Here Pearson's shell started to pull away gradually as rougher water was encountered, until it had a length and a half margin over Sturges' crew just beyond the Harvard Bridge. The strokes dropped to 29 and 28 as the water grew more troublesome, and the three boats continued downstream and across the finish line with the Sophomores three lengths ahead of the Junior eight, and Lawrence's Sophomore crew another length in the rear. The winning crew...
Just how much the race will determine is hard to tell. Swaim is well-knit and has good endurance, but his stroking is too short and too erratic to be all that is desired in a good stroke man. Watts, on the other hand, is long in the water and rows a smooth, steady stroke, but is too lanky and light-built to have the reserve power at the finish of a race which is necessary for a good stroke oar when it comes to driving a boatload of oarsmen...
Saturday's races revealed the lack of endurance of both University crews occasioned by constant rough water in the Basin which greatly reduced the number of long, hard rows. As a result Coach Brown is now starting his men in earnest on the long grind in preparation for June...
...Jayvees, however, were not so fortunate. Their race came off over an hour earlier when the Basin was at its worst, and although all three crews finished the race above water, all sank before they reached the nearby float...