Word: sturrock
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...boldly before the 25-knot wind, working up speeds as high as 12 knots, lee rails awash and scant yards of churning ocean separating their glistening hulls. Aboard Vim, Helmsman Archie Robertson braced himself against the cockpit wall and strained to hold the wheel steady. Aboard Gretel, Skipper Jock Sturrock wiped salt spume from his eyes and cursed his broken compass...
Back in Newport Harbor, Skipper Sturrock headed for Fair Oaks, a sprawling, 27-room mansion that Sir Frank Packer has leased for the summer. Pipe clenched firmly in his teeth, Packer listened silently to Sturrock's account of Gretel's race with Vim. "She may do," Sir Frank nodded. "She may do, after...
...Hunter, and Oxford's Merifield-replacing 56-lb. Hart Massey who was so minute that his crew would have needed a special shell (TIME, Feb. 1) -steered their boats so close that from the bank it looked as though the oars might lock. Then, with Hodgson at stroke, Sturrock and Cherry, veterans of England's Olympic crew, in the next two slides, Oxford began to draw away. Its lead was a boat's length at Barnes Bridge, two lengths at White Hart Inn, three lengths at the finish...
...David Sturrock, of Lanark, Scotland, former director of the Hershey Agricultural School, Cuba, has been appointed Superintendent of the Atkins Institution of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University at Soledad, Cuba. He will succeed Robert M. Grey, Superintendent since 1925, who has resigned after thirty years of service at the Institution...
...George Buchanan introduced his bill to give home rule to Scotland (TIME, May 12). All went smoothly until division time when Laborites objected to Sir Robert Home being permitted to speak, because he had not been present during the debate. Len Sturrock, Liberal, arose to "talk the bill out." Booes, shooes and shouts drowned Len's speech. Laborites arose in rotation to move closure. Each time they got up, serried hosts of Conservatives stood up to continue debate and the Speaker declined to accept the motion for closure...