Word: manned
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Sunday Herald gives an account of a wonderful light-weight six-oar of the Dauntless Boat-Club of New York. Their record shows what training and good management will do. The heaviest man in this crew is 145 pounds in weight, while the stroke and bow each weigh 115, and the average weight of the crew is only 131. Last year they defeated, among others, the Neptune Six, composed of such men as Kennedy of Yale, King of Cornell, Riley the sculler, Johnson, Keator, and Shand, - a crew which in weight, age, and reputation far surpassed them. The record...
...offer of two really handsome and valuable cups, one for walking and one for running, would, we think, meet with immediate favor. Any one winning the cup should have his name engraved upon it, each time he won, and, after being won three successive times by the same man, it should become his private property. The distance in each case should be such as to equalize, as much as possible, the chances of the sprinter and the long-distance man. A Hundred-Yard Challenge Cup would prove very popular, as comparatively little training would be required...
...time when the lives of great men are held up for our imitation, and their characters are studied as containing the secret of success, it is well to draw a lesson, or two, from the failures of an unsuccessful man...
...selects a title at random, and publishes them as a new essay. Smith was following, in a measure, this plan. Every incident in the barn-yard, every narrow escape from a mowing-machine, was booked for future use. Such is the devotion to art which every literary man feels...
...have quoted enough to show the genius of the man...