Word: oarsman
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...crew racing is a little unfair to those men who promoted and took part in intercollegiate rowing long before Mr. Connibear went to Washington. That crew does owe much to Mr. Connibear and to the University of Washington in developing the "arm and leg" stroke, no oarsman will deny...
Though there are 2,000,000 pairs of twins in the U. S., 30% of them identical, cases of identical twins who are able athletes are rare. Harvard had her famed hockey-playing Bigelows in 1928-29. Yale had her Driscolls nearly 20 years ago, one an oarsman, one a trackman, neither brilliant. Indiana State Teachers College had twin sisters named Sonafelt who were so anxious to have identical records in everything that one, a much better high diver than the other, would wriggle into her sister's place at swimming meets and dive for both. Best twin legend...
...Kauai. Last week a great-granddaughter of the roving Rices prepared to move from her Kauai acres to the biggest ranch in Oregon, whose 275 square miles include the site of the massacres that frightened off her ancestors. Her husband, big, friendly Frederick Warren Wichman, onetime Stanford University oarsman and footballer (Class of 1914), seven times Representative in the Hawaiian Legislature, bought the famed 200,000-acre Hay Creek sheep and cattle ranch east of the Cascades near the village of Madras, 150 miles southeast of Portland...
Choate, who prepared at St. Marks, is a Senior. Also an oarsman, he is the tallest man on the squad, and weighs over 200. All three men were on the C squad in the signal drill which followed the scrimmage...
...OARSMAn FOR FOUR YEARS UNDER HIS DIRECTION AND A FRIEND FOR ALL THE YEARS SINCE, I WANT TO BRAND THAT YARN AS APOCRYPHAL, UNTRUE, UNCHARACTERISTIC AND HIGHLY DEFAMATORY TO A DISTINGUISHED MASTER OF GOOD ENGLISH, A UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT-ELECT AND A GENTLEMAN, DOCTOR SPAETH NEVER LACKED FOR FAR MORE EFFECTIV WORDS THAN THE DREGS OF SPEECH WHICH ARE CHARACTERISTIC OF TWO-HUNDRED-WORD ILLITERATES. THE STUFF JUST DOES NOT RING TRUE. STEWART M. ROBINSON...