Word: watermanship
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...Airedale originated last century when middle-class and laboring Englishmen in the Aire River Valley tried to improve the scent and watermanship of their local terriers by crossing them with otterhounds. First called Waterside terrier, the new dog was renamed Airedale...
...McKinlock Hall dormitory crew, which won the dormitory championship last week, defeated the Middlesex oarsmen by three lengths in a half mile tilt on the Charles yesterday afternoon. In this clash the dormitory eight lead from the start and displayed a brand of watermanship and rowing ability clearly superior to that of the schoolboys, covering the half mile in 2 minutes 43 1-5 seconds...
Saturday's race, which was rowed under decidedly unfavorable racing conditions, made the fifth consecutive win for crew X, which displayed remarkable watermanship and a rhythm of stroke clearly superior to that of the other boats...
...until the big race there is hard work but there is lacking that tendency of driving which is evident in the American coaching system and which ultimately gives the American crew the impression of being a machine. But the Oxford or Cambridge eight gradually becomes a crew which for watermanship, blade work and power is equal if not superior to our usual crew...
...narrow, but not so narrow as the one which found such difficult going on the Thames Saturday. It is modeled, rather, after the 1923 Oxford boat which weathered some very bad blows. I don't believe that the lines of the shell were completely responsible for the Oxford swamping. Watermanship and the outside the figured considerably...