Word: heaviest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...crew first went to the river. J. F. Perkins who was unable to row last week, has gone in at 7, and Marvin who had been rowing there went to bow, supplanting Swift who is now rowing 3 on the second crew. This crew is at present the heaviest on the river, the men averaging 175 pounds. They have shown a good deal of hurry in their work thus far, rushing their recover badly. Nelson Perkins coached yesterday and as a result the crew made a marked improvement. The order now is as follows...
...expense of over $100.000 and strictly limited to 250 numbered copies. The illustrations are by Goupil and Co., Paris. The publisher's order was to spare no expense, to employ only the most famous of the French artists. The result is 586 truly magnificent etchings on the heaviest India paper (a separate book with this Ed. gives portraits and histories of the artists selected, nearly all being medalists) making this Ed. by all odds the most beautiful and artistic Balzac extant. Translated by one person throughout and conceded by experts not only the purest translation but the most ideally French...
...expense of over $100.000 and strictly limited to 250 numbered copies. The illustrations are by Goupil and Co., Paris. The publisher's order was to spare no expense, to employ only the most famous of the French artists. The result is 586 truly magnificent etchings on the heaviest India paper (a separate book with this Ed. gives portraits and histories of the artists selected, nearly all being medallists) making this Ed. by all odds the most beautiful and artistic Balzac extant. Translated by one person throughout and conceded by experts not only the purest translation but the most ideally French...
...somewhat shorter than that which the other crews use, and the recover is very much faster. The crew as a whole is apt to hurry and fails to use the leg drive soon enough. The watermanship is very good and has improved much of late. This crew is the heaviest of the four and the men are unusually strong...
Perkins at three, is the second heaviest man in the boat, weighing but a pound less than Sprague. Perkins slumps at full reach-at the catch, and at the finish-when he draws in his arms. He also rushes his slide...