Word: choppier
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Despite fatigue from rowing two races in as many days, travelling to New London, and rowing on a choppier more open course than the Charles the oarsmen hung together for victories in which they corrected Saturday's flaws...
...slower field and choppier penalty areas helped Harvard ward off five Dartmouth penalty comers in the final seven minutes of the game. The Harvard attack aimed only five short comer...
...with the force of a newborn child. In his drypoint "Umbrella by the Sea" (1948), he expresses the size and movement of an ocean by the spacing and fluidity of the line alone. In the foreground he makes his lines wide and gently curving, like lapping waves, gradually becoming choppier as he moves out to sea. Then lines become crowded, quick slashes of his stylus. In the same way, in his three reclining nudes (1939, 1941 and 1948), the surety of his stroke as he cut into the copper plate forms a line that is not a boundary...
With the wind colder and the water choppier, the Crimson skippers will not just sail away with the Jack Wood Trophy today or the Sherman Hoyt Trophy tomorrow. Carter Ford, Mike Lehman, John Kimball, and Don Cannon will first have to oust a very strong M.I.T. and Coast Guard fleets before hauling off the silver...
...Crimson entered four beats, the skippers of which were Cartor Brown, Addison Closson, A. C. Langworthy, and Fred Hoppin. Since the races were held within Larchmont Harbor, conditions were similar to those which the Crimson are accustomed to on the Charles, although the water was slightly choppier. A jammed center-board resulted in one boat's capsizing and reduced the Crimson entries to three after the third race...