Word: sculled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brien's former flat on the ground floor of Claverly House has held numerous trophies of his athletic accomplishments. At 105 pounds, he won the New England Amateur Boxing Championship in 1891 and 1892. In 1901 he added to his laurels three first place cups in single scull races. Two years ago, he placed second in a veteran's single scull race on the Schuylkill at Philadelphia. Had he been able to take his own specially constructed light boat, and had the winner been over 40, O'Brien feels sure he would have...
...ambled down to the Weld boathouse, wondering whether he should try a scull or start out with the newcomers in a wherry. He had never rowed in a scull. The boathouse was jammed with white-shirted individuals. "Maybe they're having races today," thought Vag, as he approached the young official. "I'd like to get a boat for an hour or so may be I'd better try a wherry to start with." "I'll put you on the list," said the man with the clipboard, "but we're sort of crowded." "How long?" "Well...
...Utmost. Back in England, they built a country home with a gigantic studio, a gallery open to the public, and a niche where the old Signer could relax on a red silk couch while Mary read to him. In his black scull cap and snowy beard, Watts looked more & more like a Titian portrait. As he grew old, moral philosophy became his chief interest. In the last years of his life he would pause in the garden as he passed the terra cotta sundial given him by his wife, to look at his own motto upon it: "The Utmost...
...course. It is believed to carry at least seven times the weight of its explosive in fuel. It probably has a series of jets, operated in succession to keep the rocket going on its long course (and perhaps helpful also in steering). One plausible reconstruction, by Martial & Scull, Manhattan industrial designers, indicated a steering mechanism in the tail. It seems unlikely that V-2 is steered by radio, since V-111s not and, at the heights to which V-2 climbs (60 miles or more), accurate observation to correct its deviations from the set course would be difficult. With...
Schofield Andrews, Jr., David Bullard, Arnold, Jr., Alfre Lerow Atherton, Jr., Warren Stanley Berg, Stuart Marshall Beringer, David George Bernard, Franklin Swift Billings, Jr., George Edward Byers, Jr., George Scull Cook, Jacob Leslie Crane, 3d., Richard Lloyd Davies, George Chaffee Dillon, Frederick William Eaton, 2d., James Murray Forbes, Henry Edgar Frachtman, George William French, 2d., John Winslow Frenning, Bernard Sholom Glassman, Aram Harry Hatch...