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Word: rowers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vacancies have easily been filled by the oars of Todd Howard (a varsity rower returning from a year off), and Gil Welch, who has graduated from the J.V. boat into the six seat of the varsity...

Author: By Richard J. Doherty, | Title: Harvard, Radcliffe Armada Takes to High Seas | 4/17/1976 | See Source »

...oarsman put it, in a scene right out of the Wizard of Oz, the oarsmen began gathering around the Wicked Witch of Newell celebrating the victory of the dazed yardling rower. "We won! The Erg is dead...

Author: By Richard J. Doherty, | Title: Rags to Riches | 3/17/1976 | See Source »

...ergometer, you see, is the rowing world's answer to running in place. It is a machine which simulates on-the-water rowing, with two notable exceptions. First, the machine doesn't go anywhere so the rower is in a constant upstream battle to maintain his or her power throughout the "erg-piece." And the second damning quality of this mainstay-in-the-winter-wonderland-of-rowing is its ability to spit back a "strength score" into the face of the vanquished rower...

Author: By Richard J. Doherty, | Title: Rags to Riches | 3/17/1976 | See Source »

Yale's women's crew will have shower facilities any day now, rower Jennie Kiesling said last night...

Author: By Marc G. Isaacs, | Title: Yale Showers | 3/12/1976 | See Source »

Biographers tend to get lost in the labyrinth of Pound's poetry, politics and character. But in Ezra Pound: The Last Rower, Biographer C. David Heymann has attacked the problems with a special advantage. Under the 1966 Freedom of Information Act, he was the first scholar to study the massive FBI files on the Ezra Pound treason case. The result is the most harshly realistic portrait of the poet so far produced, a sickening, touching study of a man of great gifts gone wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetry and Poison | 3/8/1976 | See Source »

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