Word: dipped
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...lead of 10 feet in the first twenty strokes. Rowing 36 to the minute Harvard passed into the second half-mile over two and one-half lengths ahead. Soon after this Stroke Newton dropped the beat to 32 and the boat forged ahead with every powerful well-executed dip of the oars. Entering the last mile Newton again shoved the stroke up to between 35 and 36, a pace which was kept up to the finish. At the mile Harvard was seven lengths ahead, and at the finish line from 14 to 16 lengths separated the two shells...
...collections is the case of graphite and clay in their crude forms. Here are shown the various stages in the manufacture of lead pencils, graphite, electrodes and lubricants. The materials are also displayed which illustrate the manufacture of the Welsbach light. Samples of the lighting fluid and the mantle dip, which renders the mantle incandescent, are shown, beside the cotton webbing in the mantle form before it is dipped in the solution of light-giving oxides...
...progress of the University crew squad during the past week has been fairly satisfactory. Coach Wray has paid almost exclusive attention lately to the marked tendency of the crew to dip too deep on the catch, and to wash out at the finish of the stroke. Several changes in the make-up of the crew have been made. Sargent has taken E. Bacon's place at stroke, Bacon has gone to 6, Lunt to 4, Morgan to 3, and Faulkner to bow. It is too early as yet to tell what the ultimate result of the changes will...
...Advocate is glad to welcome, discuss and criticise any literary effort of a Harvard undergraduate. That it offers an encouraging and instructive field to the man who likes to dip pen in ink, is its only claim to usefulness...
...candidate may chose either the old or the new tests. The old system is based on the force of the leg lift and the back lift and of the grip in the right and left hand; on the strength and capacity of the lungs, and on the ability to dip and chin. The new system is based on the following series of exercises: Lying down and rising to a sitting posture, chinning, dipping while resting on the knees, bending of knees to a squatting posture, bending of trunk forward, and rising on toes and heels...