Word: boatman
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They apportioned their operating responsibilities: Clark was the better boatman and navigator, Lewis the planner and natural historian, often walking ashore far ahead of the vessels being laboriously hauled against the Missouri's current. Clark clearly had the cooler head. He brokered the crucial early compromise that ended a staredown with the Teton Sioux. The more mercurial Lewis hurled a puppy into the face of an Indian who angered him, and killed a Blackfeet in the corps's only violent incident...
...Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grand Jatte.” The opening act, set in the 1880s, follows the progress of George’s work, presenting snapshots of the various individuals that provide inspiration for the painting—a baker, a nurse, a boatman, et al. Their appearances are brief, their depth non-existent; they exist to the audience only as they exist to George. Yet George, who skillfully observes his subjects—effortlessly taking them apart and agonizingly putting them back together by painting tiny, meticulous dots on an enormous canvas—cannot...
Harvard’s interest in the King boats, designed by former Harvard boatman Graeme King and produced by the fledging company Elite Boatworks, peaked when Jim Crick ’88, President of Elite Boatworks and former Harvard rower, brought Elite’s fifth boat to Cambridge...
Originally from Australia, King served as a boatman for Harvard in the ’70s. He became an expert in slender hull theory and an engineer with wooden boat designs that are still used today...
Many would find it absurd to challenge Pluto's planetary qualifications. It circles our sun, it has a moon (Charon, the boatman of the Styx), it is roughly spherical, it has an atmosphere--and it has a cartoon dog named after it. If that's not enough for a planet, what...