Word: sculled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Davenport, who was for years a star writer on FORTUNE. On the staff are-La Rue Applegate, six years on the Business staff of the New York Times; Perry Githens, three years news editor of Business Week; Emeline Nollen, who used to be an ace FORTUNE researcher, and Penrose Scull, our widely-quoted transportation expert, who for ten years had his own world-wide freight-forwarding business...
Repairing of damaged boats is handled in the shop which is located on the west side of the Boat Club. Many a wounded scull has been repaired there, but the story is told of one eight, whose remains can still be seen in the Boat Club, which ran up the ramp into the shop in a fog and got sawed in half on the buzz...
...credits, while such sports as tennis, squash, and bicycling can only be counted as two credits. For instance, if you are on a regular eight-oared crew rowing for a House or for the College, you get four credits a week, while you get only two credits for single scull rowing...
Tunney-trained Chief Boatswain's Mate John Geston will conduct the program which must be attended by prospective officers, with the exception of those who are out for intercollegiate teams. Men enrolled in active sports, such as tennis, squash, and single-scull rowing, will be required to be present at only two periods a week...
...Thomson, 44, is a chub-cheeked, baldish, chirrupy, witty, exquisitely cultivated native of Kansas City. A piano-prodigious only son, he went to the same high school as Playwight-Critic Richard Lockridge, Contralto Gladys Swarthout, Actor William Powell. Virgil Thomson went to Harvard, where he wore kid gloves to scull on the River Charles, and played the organ in Boston's King's Chapel. He spent a year after graduation on a grant from the Juilliard Foundation, then went to Paris, to go hungry. "I hope," he declared, "I shall never again have to earn an honest penny...