Word: stretching
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...serfs opened a path for them into politics. Then the events of the early '90s gave Russia a large and important mass of middle-classmen who were anxious for political power. A gospel of discontent and protest was preached unceasingly and the tendency of Russia was to stretch everything beyond the proper limits...
...annual regatta of the fall rowing season begins tomorrow and will be concluded on Friday afternoon. The regatta will open with the comp and wherry races, which will start at 3.30 o'clock and will be over the half-mile stretch up-stream. The comp races are open to all undergraduates who have not rowed in singles, and the wherry races are open to all undergraduates who have not rowed in comps. Several heats will be held if the number of entries make them necessary, and medals will be given to the winners...
...first time this year the two first University crews were given a short workout on the Charles last Saturday afternoon. What little ice remains is rapidly melting, and a long stretch up the river is clear enough to give the coxswains little trouble. The floats at Newell have been launched; the Pup II is in the water; and today the shells and the Pup I will be brought back from Lynn. From now until their trip to Carnegie Lake for the Princeton race in April the crews will row on the Charles...
...open water yesterday to allow the seven lower University boats and the first Freshman to hold short practice rows. For all but the third and fourth crews this was the first outdoor work, and the boats went rather awkwardly; a large amount of floating ice in the only open stretch available, furthermore, made the work of coxswains difficult. If the present clement weather continues the river should be clear by the first of the week...
...third and fourth shells again went out on the narrow stretch of open water below Anderson Bridge on the Charles, and succeeded in getting some benefit out of a very limited practice row. All the remaining eights were kept on the machines and sent...