Word: derrick
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lightweight races at Princeton are an important hurdle in coach Derrick Wilde's bid to bring the Crimson domination of Eastern 150-pound rowing...
Half an hour earlier the junior varsity 150 pound crew showed how one-sided a race can be as it finished five lengths ahead of M.I.T. and Dartmouth. Since last week, when the Crimson j.v.s lost to Tech by half a length, Coach Derrick Wylde made major changes in the boat, so that in Saturday's race only four of the original crew were rowing...
...Derrick Wilde's strong 150-pound Crimson varsity rates an excellent chance to defeat M.I.T. in a two-boat race at 6 p.m. The lightweight oarsmen covered the Henley distance of one mile and five-sixteenths in six minutes and 48 seconds...
...Derrick Greaves, 28, specialist in everyday drama in the city's back streets, similar to the U.S.'s own turn-of-thecentury Ashcan School...
Asked for help, Britain's Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell cooked up some glass spiked with radioactive scandium and ground it down until its particles were the same size as the Thames silt. Two drums of the hot stuff were dumped by derrick on the bottom of the Thames. Then scientists armed with Geiger counters traced the movement of the radioactive particles. Some of them were found eleven miles upstream, confirming the worst suspicions of the Port of London Authority...