Word: beefed
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...Bostonian, who proved last year that a man may lack avoirdupois, wear eye-glasses, and yet row a splendid race, sets the crew a beautiful stroke. Behind him the ponderous Chalfant, with a trunk like Schwartz's and with massive legs and thighs, in boating parlance, "puts plenty of beef into his oar" at every stroke. Then come Hudgens, tall and squarely built; Clark and Hammond, men of height and brawn; Sawyer at No. 2, where he rowed last year, while Cabot, last year's No. 3, occupies the bow. The stroke is a familiar one to those who have...
...pull eight miles each day, four miles in the morning at about ten o'clock, and four miles in the evening at about six o'clock. The crew is the heaviest that Yale ever put on the water, and, if 'beef' tells, and there's reason to believe that it does, they will not be very far behind Harvard at the finish. Among the members of the crew there is considerable confidence, more so in fact than is either necessary or good for them. The college at large is very non-committal on the subject, and no one seems...
...lead, which caused the 'Varsity to work a little more. When the Providence crew ceased from their spurt the freshman coxswain urged on his men, who for a while made a beautiful race for second place, but were soon compelled to yield to the better form and beef of the now hard-pushed Narragansetts. The 'Varsity rowed at their ease until nearing the end, when they spurted in a beautiful manner with 40 strokes to the minute and crossed the line in 11 min. 30 sec., the Narragansetts 29 seconds behind them, and the freshmen 6 seconds behind the latter...
...corner of the car sat a Memorial Hall waiter returning to the scenes of his daily triumphs over twelve brow-beaten individuals who submit to cold roast beef and hot vegetables or cold vegetables and hot roast beef, according to the best judgment of the servant above-mentioned. He had a sleek, self-satisfied air, and well he might, for he knew the secret goings-on in an establishment which had been the despair of the president and corporation of Harvard College and six hundred students to boot. He probably knew why the directors remained together four hours...
...decision of the German customs, admitting American corned beef as "fine iron ware," is sustained by that government...