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...American or English professional type of rowing. This system's essential feature is the utilization of the powerful leg muscles instead of the weaker back muscles, which were used so much in the old Harvard method of leaning far forward, and backward at the beginning and end of the pull-through...
...recess. All men ran three times a week over a distance varying from three to five miles. Coach Stevens has laid such emphasis on running not only in order to develop the wind of the oarsmen but more especially the leg muscles, upon which rests the burden of the pull-through in Coach Stevens' method of rowing...
...once the Committee began to summon everyone mentioned in the telegrams. A. Mitchell Palmer testified that he had acted temporarily for Mr. McLean, while the latter's regular attorney was out of town. He declared that he had made no attempts to pull wires for the publisher, and denied connection with anyone else mentioned in the case...
Mexico. "We recognize that the people of that country have a perfect right to set up and pull down Governments without interference from us. "When disorder arose there, President Obregon sought the purchase of a small amount of arms and munitions of our Government for the purpose of insuring his own domestic tranquility. We had either to re fuse or to comply. To refuse would have appeared to be equivalent to deciding that a friendly Government, which we had recognized, ought not to be permitted to protect itself...
...Harding. Mr. Stevens gave the plans for the University crews, saying that until the spring recess there would be three University crews, and after the recess only two. The emphasis in coaching all men will be a smooth recovery and a powerful leg-drive throughout the whole pull-though. There will be no jerk at the finish...