Word: lightest
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...irregularly, and has not yet acquired a good control of his oar. Two is another short man, but strongly made; he has the varying faults caused by a frequent looking out of the boat, and does not row as hard as a man of his strength should. Bow, the lightest man in the crew, is, next to stroke, the hardest worker, and one of the best oars in the boat. A large part of this strong crew is so raw that little reliance can yet be put upon them. The crew is made up as follows...
...wants more "lift" at the beginning and more snap. Littaner improves very fast, and his form is one of the best. LeMoyne, '77, does not sit up well at the finish, reaches round with his outside shoulder, and does not keep his back straight. LeMoyne is the shortest and lightest candidate, but does his full share of the work: should he part with his faults, he will make an efficient oar. Crocker reaches around with his outside shoulder, but keeps his back in good shape, gets a good catch, and carries the stroke well through...
...Convention and be beaten every year. As I said before, the majority of fellows here don't take any interest in athletics, don't care for politics, don't read, won't study, and can't even talk outside the limited tether of college elections, gossip, the theatre, the lightest reading of the Saturday Evening Gazette, and the funny columns of our daily newspapers, - and you are one of that class, and a very popular man, if that comforts you. Good night...
FROM the Forest and Stream we gather the following in regard to the English crews who are to meet on Saturday next. Average weight of the Cambridge crew, 163 pounds, Average weight of the Oxford crew, 173 pounds. In the Oxford boat the stroke is the lightest man, and the bow the heaviest but one. In the Cambridge, the bow is the lightest, and the three heaviest are Nos. 4, 5, and 6. The indications of a good race are numerous, the betting being two to one in favor of the lighter crew...
...this scrape, and how he was helped out of that, and by what device the heroine is enabled to survive the agony she suffers or the crime she commits, - to all such persons the book will prove a tedious one; but those who enjoy philosophizing of the pleasantest and lightest sort, illumined at every step by some thought as striking and original as true, will find all this and much more, in Kenelm Chillingly...