Word: slides
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...slower and steadier stroke, caught up and made its bump not two hundred yards from the finish. The latter crew proved to be one of the best on the river and would probably have bumped the Brattle street boat much sooner but for an accident to the stroke's slide at the start...
...began by showing a stereopticon slide of the map of Labrador, and giving a geographical survey of the coast and country over which his work extends. Then followed stereopticon views of the fjords, harbors and mountains of Labrador, showing the routes taken by the natives in their cruises along the coast. An account of the experience of the fishing vessels was illustrated by many unique pictures of salmon jumping over falls, and of the caribou and bear of the northern latitudes. He showed several slides of seal-hunting, scenes of winter travel by dog-team, and icebergs, towering far above...
...June 9.--Today's practice was the most encouraging since the crews have been here. The four-oar rowed a mile down stream against the tide, in 5 minutes, 50 seconds. The men rowed fairly well together but their time and slide control were ragged. At six o'clock the two University crews and the Freshmen raced down stream. The second dropped out at the Navy Yard, a quarter of a length ahead of the first. At this point the Freshmen were leading by a length and a quarter, and dropped out at the three-mile mark, two lengths ahead...
...three of the University crews were on the river yesterday. Ober was back at 2 in the first boat and Shepard went to 6 in the second. Foster, who has been taking Shepard's place in the second, was moved back to 4 in the third. The slide work of all three crews is still far from satisfactory, especially on the finish of the recover. The second boat finishes of the recover. The second boat finishes poorly and the third is decidedly weak on the catch...
...chief faults of the old stroke are to be found in the mode of recovery, which is to reach with hands and body before sliding forward. Partly as the cause and partly as the result of this method, was developed a hurried, laborious, jarring, recovery. The new stroke, it is hoped, will avoid these drawbacks by means of a recovery in which hands, body, and slide all shoot forward, approach full reach, and turn back as nearly in unison as possible, the body reaching forward a little farther than formerly and finishing only slightly back of the perpendicular. A generally...