Word: shelling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this year Navy has defeated Cornell, Princeton, and Syracuse. Pennsylvania, also undefeated, has finished ahead of Princeton, Columbia, and Yale. Love's only significant change in the shell this week has been the switch of coxswains. He moved sophomore Bob McLaughlin into the varsity in place of Ted Crowther...
...freshmen have continued to register surprising times in their trial heats and could very well repeat their victory over Tech. Five of the Yardlings are spending their opening season in a shell, but that has not stopped them from equalling the varsity's times over the Henley mile and five sixteenths distances...
...shapeless in movement. Under Director Herman Shumlin's able supervision, there are plenty of vivid snapshots and plenty of lively moments, but the play provides no sustained drama. And what does seem fictional seems all too much so: a vapid love story between Scopes and a hard-shell preacher's daughter; a Mencken who talks more like a smarty-pants cribbing from the real Mencken's prose. But if Inherit the Wind is not quite up to snuff as a play, it is often effective theater...
...varsity race, the Crimson's last-minute surge in the final quarter-mile, when stroke Nick Platt boosted the cadence to a 40, was not sufficient to overcome the greater pulling strength of the taller and heavier Wisconsin shell. The Badgers continued comparatively calmly rowing a 35 despite the varsity's furious, pressing drive a few feet astern...
...understand this conflict, one must realize that through the ages the shape and form of the single scull have changed remarkably little. True, form time to time artisans have managed to make them thinner and lighter, and this year the boathouse has added a fiberglass shell. But the basic concept of rowing has not changed...