Word: tiller
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...years after he became Tsar, Peter began to woo the sea. He learned on a Russian lake how to trim a sheet and ease a tiller. Later he went to Holland disguised as Peter Mikhailov, able-bodied seaman, there took a job in shipyards and learned how to warp gnarled oak into clean ship shape with his own hands. He learned navigation, piloting, naval tactics...
There have been no changes in the Oarsmen of the first Varsity now since the end of vacation, but Tommy Boynton will cox the first eight today in place of Jimmy Ducey. Boynton held the tiller ropes in last year's undefeated Freshman outfit and was previously on the thirds. The Jayvees will line up as on last Monday...
...Whitman at six. Sophomore Dave Challinor is occupying the number seven slide, left open by the graduation of last year's captain Fluff Stevens, and Colt Wagner, stroke of the Jayvees last June, is the present pacesetter. Jimmy Ducey, out of College last year, is at present holding the tiller ropes...
...would produce nothing but more wind. From his sickbed half-blind President Roberto Marcelino Ortiz advised the Radicals to collaborate with the Government and a Radical Deputy resigned his seat in protest. As the Ship of State veered sharply toward the shallows Juan Pueblo thought he saw on the tiller the crafty hand of onetime President General Agustín P. Justo, the only other man in Argentina with a plan...
...last. To the victorious crew went added glory when it was learned that they had 1) rowed 2½ extra miles to the starting line earlier in the afternoon only to discover that, unbeknown to them, the race had been postponed; 2) rowed the last mile with a broken tiller rope...