Word: slides
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...account of the changes necessitated by illness, the crew is perhaps not so far advanced as at this time last year. The most notable progress took place at the end of last week and on the last two days of this week. Improvement has been towards steadiness and better slide work which has brought about better spacing...
...short, and does not finish with sufficient drive. Sargent still shows a tendency to be late on the recovery, but errs less in this respect on the port than on the starboard side. Cutler does not straighten his arms at the catch and is inclined to shorten his slide...
...obliged to rely upon the uncertain use of the Brookline tank and on the caprice of the owners of private tanks of inadequate size in Cambridge. For a coach the team has had nobody. As we have already pointed out, very little more pressure will push swimming down the slide after basketball, and one more excellent minor sport will be lost...
...Snow slides are quite like miniature glaciers, being formed by forty or fifty feet of snow drifting info a deep mountain gulch. When the spring rains come, the water percolates through this body, causing the bottom of it to melt away. The immense mass, weighing hundreds of tons, then starts on its swift course down the chasm, tearing everything before it. One picture showed how a slide had cut a straight, narrow path directly through a forest, and in one instance had driven a log completely through a larger tree. The momentum of these slides coming from such a height...