Word: stockier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only answer that seems to be at all evident is that no set rule of the ideal crew man can be made. It is true that while Bolles did try a particularly tall crew and a shorter, stockier crew in a race, the shorter crew won, but looking over the members of both crews it seems fairly obvious that the outcome of the race might have been predicted on the quality of oarsmen alone...
While Robertson was superior at long range, the stockier Yale boxer was a past master of infighting. After trading blows evenly for three rounds, they were both tottering so that it seemed an even gamble which one would go down, and swing the victory to one side or the other...
...late Field Marshal Lord Haig. In his own mind Sculptor Hardiman decided that when he was ordered to make an equestrian statue of Lord Haig he was really intended to glorify the British armies which the Field Marshal-distiller led. Accordingly he designed a heroic figure, stronger, stockier than Douglas Haig ever was, astride a monumental beast like a horse of a Roman conqueror...