Word: sliding
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Dates: during 1921-1921
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...ball quivers and starts to go down the field. A mighty shout goes up. Then something happens, and the ball stops, looks, listens and and turns in the other direction. Loud groans. A wooden slide in the mechanism of the scoreboard rattles into place, upside down. Agile spectators figure out that it says "Pass failed...
...leave it to the mathematicians with their slide rules to figure out whether the problem can be solved this side of infinity...
...both in the type of rowing and in the rigging of the Yale shells. Many considered it a step backward, for instance, when Mr. Nickalls reintroduced the thole-pin in the outriggers in place of the lock now in universal use in this country; his insistence on the flat slide has also been criticised...
Ethically, the proposition is all wrong. The man who is able to slide by in class, and knows that he is not doing the expected work, tends to form such a habit. This habit will grow and take in greater and more important things. Most men who do this thing know that it is wrong but their ethical standards are abstract, not a part of everyday life. They are to be dragged out and burnished occasionally but never used...
...Oxford squad, the outstanding oarsman is F. Lothrop, who rowed at No. 2 in last year's Harvard eight which defeated Yale. He is well-built and works extremely hard. His arm work at the finish is good and when he has learned to combine his body and slide more perfectly, he should be a valuable acquisition to Oxford. At present, he is inclined to row the stroke in two pieces...