Word: oar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...honorary doctor of laws degree. "Where we will wind up no one can tell. But if some of the new programs seriously proposed should be adopted, there is danger that the individual-whether farmer, worker, manufacturer, lawyer, or doctor-will soon be an economic slave pulling an oar in the galley of the state...
Until last Tuesday, this looked like the year to snap the losing streak. But at that point Curwen went to Stillman with a high fever, induced by a virus infection. Twenty-four hours later, seven oar Ollie Iselin came down with intestinal troubles, which kept him away from practice...
Princeton arrived on the Charles with a crew which used a style very similar to Bolles' an ideally matched crew superbly conditioned, and trained to stroke identically. Belles, on the other hand, had a varsity weeks behind the Tigers on practice, with a number five oar who takes absolutely no layback a bow and seven man who both dip their right shoulders before the catch, an da stroke who rows the lowest beat in the east. Yet the Bolles-coached crew won, has gone right on winning since that race, and probably will continue to do so until the season...
...until the last two minutes that the stroke oar alters his stopwatch planning to fit the situation. Then, if he is behind, he stakes everything on a final sprint to the finish. This is the most crucial and exciting part of the race, for the oarsmen are already dead tired, and a higher stroke increases the chance of a mistake...
...esprit which Coach Bolles feels is the most important cause of all. It is an esprit which can only come from eight oarsmen, a cox, and a coach who are dogged enough to spend months in the cold wind or broiling sun learning to pull a 12-foot oar through the water with the precision and power to win races on perhaps five Saturday afternoons in a year and to pull just as hard despite the fact that 99 out of 100 people who watch them don't even know their names...