Word: styles
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...equally primed for the race. All seemed equal. All except one factor was equal--that factor was the stroke they rowed. The Cornell and Princeton crews used a short stroke with a strong leg drive and sharp finish--the so-called American stroke. The Yale crews, rowing in faultless style, used a long stroke, combining an accentuated body swing with a long reach and a sharp catch--the English style...
...which was two miles long, seems to have conclusively proved the shorter stroke to be superior over such distances as this and the Henley course, not only because it can be effectively and efficiently raised to 36, 38, and even 40 to the minute and impossibility with the English style of rowing--but also because it is not nearly so exhausting when rowed at a relatively high stroke, necessary in a short race...
...popularizing 'Butler's vision of the machines that came alive, provided he would at the same time consent to suppress all but the most delicate of his puns. In S. B. Colby's essay on "Keeping an Open Mind," I notice a curious and probably involuntary defect of style, a battering succession of iambic verses...
...work of one of the chief Spanish dramatists. He is preeminently a satirist, but his humor shows itself most in the double meanings that abound in "The Governor's Wife." Being an actor himself, he was able to ignore the common precepts of craftsmanship and to make his style one of the most complex and highly personal in literature...
...doubted if the contest will attract as much attention as the recent football game at Pasadena and yet to those interested in educational matters the event cannot but be of interest. Will we see at Sanders Theatre on the twenty-first a different style of debating than that to which we are used? Probably not, because after all forensic discussion is thousands of years older than football, and the style has not varied much during the centuries. The men who meet Washington will not wear togas which they will loop up with their left hand while they use the right...