Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Harvard has lost heavily from the boat that rumbled to a 4-1 season and the Sprint championship last year, and Parker has been forced to use three of last year's J. V. oarsmen-one of whom will stroke-and a sophomore, in his varsity shell this spring. A relatively ice-free winter provided valuable time on the water, but the extra practice was more necessary than ever before...
Erich Almasy, a junior who rowed in the J. V. eight last year, is the new Crimson stroke, and with an inexperienced stern four faces an undesirable test against two boats which, though weak, have raced already this season...
...Crimson then settled into a 35- strokes-per-minute pace. As soon as the crew cut its stroke to the 35, coxswain Fred Yalouris called for ten power strokes. The power ten put Harvard a length ahead of Columbia and two ahead of Rutgers...
...will probably notice that there is a peculiar lack of statistics in all that I have written. It is very tempting to give one stroke of the pen for each of the millions of people that America has killed or starved or maimed, or the thousands of rivers it has polluted, and reduce it to a table or graph and then say, "Look...
Died. Jesse M. Donaldson, 84, onetime $11-a-week letter carrier who became Postmaster General from 1947 to 1953; of a stroke; in Kansas City, Mo. The son of a rural postmaster, Donaldson served as a postal inspector, postal administrator, and First Assistant Postmaster General before becoming the first career man to head the department...