Word: stroked
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Died. Marcus (Emperor Marcus I) Garvey, 52, Jamaica-born Negro leader of the defunct "Back to Africa" movement; of a paralytic stroke: in London...
Varsity: Stroke; J. Wilson; 7, R. Stevens; 6, S. Gray; 5, W. Kernan; 4, R. Fowler; 3, S. Goddard; 2, J. Richard; bow, H. Pirhie; cox, G. Shortlidge...
...Leader, the Yale coach, over-stepped the usual limits of caution when recently brought up his Jayvee stroke to pace the Varsity eight. Crew is a sport in which the men practice together, but coach Leader took the chance of upsetting their smoothness in a last-minute attempt to improve the Eli first contingent...
...Leader may have found it necessary to make a desperate attempt to increase the power of the boat at the expense of its smoothness, when he set Johnny Blain in the stroke seat of the Varsity...
...said this armored scythe stroke almost reached Dunkirk-almost but not quite...