Word: derrick
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even thirty minutes for four miles is lightning time in anybody's boat. No standard course records are kept, Dennison believes, but he noted that anything near six minutes for one mile is excellent time. Thirty-Minute club members have flashed over the mile distance in 6:22. Derrick M. Wilde '53, who won the Senior Scullers' one-mile race in the University regatta earlier this month, posted a time...
...Derrick Wilde '53 whipped his way to a one-length victory over strong but rough John Carnes 3L yesterday in the University Senior Singles championships. Wilde led all the way. Sam Hoar 3L war third and Hugh Hermann 3M fourth over the mile-long Basin course...
...away the most ingenious of all British puzzle "setters" is a Sussex schoolmaster named Derrick Somerset Macnutt, whose crosswords appear each fortnight in London's Sunday Observer under the byline Ximenes (a Cardinal Inquisitor of Spain). Ximenes' puzzles, for which he is paid 10 to 15 guineas ($30-$44) apiece, contain clues that range from pure cipher through anagram to outrageous pun. Samples: "Pleased a bag ?14 lighter" in four letters;** "Important city in Czechoslovakia" in four letters ;†† "Shortage of bats at a high level" in six letters...
...nearly 40 years, a gaunt oil derrick rusted on a hilltop east of Edmonton, a landmark known the country round as "Chamberlain's Folly." While digging for water on his farm in 1911, William Chamberlain had hit a pocket of natural gas and got a hunch that there might be oil on his land. He sank his savings in an oil rig, the first rotary drill ever used in Alberta. The money ran out when the well was down 2,000 feet, with no sight of oil. Discouraged, Chamberlain went back to farming...
...Derrick Wild beat Bill Brawley in the 155-pound singles over a half-mile. Morgan Hatch edged Charles Gardiner of the Business School in comps, while Ed Wilford came in ahead of Lee Segel in wherries...