Word: oarsman
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...general excitement one stalwart oarsman forget himself and put a large and capable foot through the paper-thin bottom of the shell. Everyone was disturbed, but there were lots of other shells. So they got in another and rowed off. Coming upstream, the little cox didn't see a cake of ice, and suddenly the boat was split from bow to stern, and sank unceremoniously...
Swimming vigorously to escape the whirling propellers, the Harvard oarsman barely missed mincing, but his shell was split in half by the impact, and the parts only brought to shore with difficulty. The entire accident happened so quickly that passengers were at first unaware of the disaster, until the shouts of onlookers and the shattered wreckage drew their attention to the collision...
When questioned about the gas situation, Bolles replied that there is enough gas available for the crew launches "to row every Harvard oarsman bowlegged...
...author has come a long way since the days, three years ago when, under the Munich umbrella, he was a Varsity oarsman and sports editor of Oxford's undergraduate paper; days when he dared not let himself consider the time gone out of his life, "first at school, now at the University, which had been sweated away upon the river, earnestly peering one way and going the other." Today, of all the friendly clique of athletic esthetes, the "long-haired boys" who went down from Oxford to the R.A.F. training camps in the autumn of 1939, Australian-born Richard...
Prominent in Crimson rowing circles although never an oarsman in one of Tom Bolles' eights, Hurd is the grandson of Robert Herrick, Harvard's crew angel, who annually donates one or two new $1,500 shells to the H.A.A...