Word: dumb
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...body motion, practising the swing from the hips and the stiff back. For a part of the time the straight arm has been practised; and yesterday in the rowing room the first two crews used the oars. After the rowing the men go through a brief dumb bell exercise, and take a short run. It is too early for much criticism of the men. There are not many heavy men among the candidates; the old crew however, was a pretty heavy set. The body work of the crews has been fair but when they took the oars yesterday...
...river. Four crews turned out, made up nearly entirely of crew candidates. Since then enough men to form three crews have been training regularly in the gymnasium. S. D. Parker '91, has been coaching them. Each crew practices about half an hour on the rowing weights, goes through some dumb bell exercise, and takes a run up North Avenue. The practice on the weights has consisted so far of body work with stiff arms. Lately the crew have been using the oars for a part of the practice. The men have been put through this training of two hours every...
...present the work of the '93 crew consists in rowing about fifteen minutes on the weights, followed by a short dumb bell drill, and finishing with a short...
Louis Cyr broke the world's record for putting up dumb-bells at Montreal last week. He put up 109 pounds with one hand from the shoulder twenty-seven times...
...third story is limited to one room-a drying room. In the corner of this is a dumb waiter, which runs up from the ground floor for the purpose of carrying clothes...