Word: sweeping
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...care and exercise, also the power to keep the shoulders back firmly when the body is forward on the full reach. If an oarsman negligently allows himself to overreach, his hold upon the water when first dipping his oar will prove to be jerky, consequently destroying that uniform steady sweep which should characterize a Harvard crew. A firm, upright body is then the first thing our men should...
These remarks and this new remedy seem especially timely at present, for we are now facing this "mucker" problem in all its immensity, and we shall continue to face it and groan under our inflections in all probability until the November winds sweep the "mucker" away, unless some such strong measures are adopted...
...train, and do not take interest enough in its success to correct any abuses which may have crept into the management, it is hardly probable that taking the contest out of their hands will cause any great wave of enthusiastic interest in the fate of the nine to sweep over the college. The secret of our success in those branches of athletics where we have been successful-base-ball and foot-ball-is that here everything is in the hands of undergraduates and that consequently every undergraduate takes a personal interest in the work of the nine and eleven...
...Yale crew are now being coached every day by Captain Flanders, who pulled bow oar on the last year's crew. The "Cooke stroke" differs in a marked degree from the stroke of last year. The former stroke was a short sweep, with a quick recover ; now the sweep is very long, the recovery slow. In the former stroke the legs and back were used in a quick, jerky manner, which is now superseded by not using the legs at all, the back being kept rigid until the completion of the stroke...
...fond mother on visiting her son at the University and looking around his room with an anxiouseye, asked: "My son, do you ever sweep under the deed?" "Oh, yes, mother," was the earnest reply, "it is so much easier than to use a dust-pan."-[Spectator...