Sentences with word «oarsman»

An "oarsman" is a person who rows a boat using oars. Full definition
He had fought for good health on and off for a number of years with the same indomitable spirit that led him to many a victory on the river both as oarsman and the architect, as Head Coach, of a record series of Boat Race victories for Oxford over rivals, Cambridge in the 70s and 80s.
His 40 - day adventure smashed the record for a human - powered transatlantic trip (by a British oarsman in 1987) by nearly two weeks.
The Rangers (they insist on the definite article with a capital «T,» even referring to their huge red - brick home near the river on the western outskirts as The Stadium) grew out of the excess energies of a group of oarsmen who used to get the ball out after dragging their boat from the Clyde at Glasgow Green.
The reply was scorching wind, lapping of water, pull of the black oarsmen on the oars...
This is the fabulous story of the 1936 U.S. University of Washington Rowing team and the eight sturdy varsity oarsmen who astonished the world and annoyed Hitler and the Nazis by winning a gold medal in the Berlin Olympics.
On Massachusetts» gloomy and rain - spattered Lake Quinsigamond, the world champion oarsmen from Germany's Ratzeburg Rowing Club (SI, May 20) were pitted against last year's IRA champions from Cornell and 13 other crews in the annual eastern sprints.
250 oarsmen swept over Onondaga's waters but only 26 were measured for Olympic uniforms, including that Kelly boy and
American oarsmen have only a little more than a year of practice left to recapture the Olympic supremacy in eight - oared shells that was theirs for 40 years until 1960.
It was in this race that one of the Cambridge oarsmen tied a light blue ribbon to the bows of the Cambridge boat (the colours of his school, Eton College).
This remarkable craft, rowed by 12 oarsmen with its Dutch inventor, Cornelius Drebbel, and a few other passengers on board, sailed for three hours underwater from Westminster to Greenwich.
So we have the paradox of a man shamed to death because he is only the second pugilist or the second oarsman in the world.
Professional oarsmen can hit power outputs as high as 500 Watts during a race — a phenomenal show of strength and speed.
We head to Inle Lake in Burma's Shan State, famous for its unique oarsmen, floating gardens, and jumping cats.
We met our local oarsmen who guided us silently down the river lined with mangroves and grasses, weaving between the limestone rocks.
The oldest street sign in Paris — at 42 rue Galande, with S. Etienne and two oarsmen on a boat (XIVth century?)
ROYAL CANADIAN HENLEY REGATTA: DETROIT BOAT CLUB, in regatta with 600 oarsmen from 24 rowing clubs, stroked to Senior Eights and team title with record 428 points; singles champion: PAT COSTELLO, Detroit Boat Club, at Port Dalhousie, Ont.
As David Halberstam wrote in The Amateurs, his excellent book about 1984 Olympic hopefuls, «It was part of the oarsman's unwritten code that one did not mention the pain.
«I remember rowing hundreds of miles as an oarsman without ever winning a race,» Edwards says.
The periscopes are all trained on Yale's varsity eight and it may take a real torpedo to stop Jim Rathschmidt's oarsmen
Many Oxford oarsmen go on to compete internationally: in Sydney four Gold medallists came from Oxford, and at the Athens Games in 2004 Oxford oarsmen brought home two Gold medals and a Silver.
The oarsmen pull together in unison with discipline and focus.
«Let us export our oarsmen, our runners, our fencers into other lands.
I walk onto a rocky pinnacle and look down on the murmuring river, where an oarsman steers a blue raft carrying a red - jacketed fly fisherman.
In striving for ever higher speeds the familiar racing shells propelled by eight oarsmen may have to give way to unconventional watercraft.
The elder Paine had been an oarsman for Harvard in the 1850s, and served as an officer in the 22nd Massachusetts in the Civil War, during which time he commanded a unit of African - American soldiers.
In parts of the East Indies, so one story goes, the seats of native canoes were once equipped with holes — through which the tails of the oarsmen could comfortably dangle.
Vikings enthrallingly captures the world of Norsemen and oarsmen, circa 793 in the Eastern Baltic but soon heading West to England.
The point of the classroom activities is to eliminate achievement gaps that are caused by differences in background knowledge and experiences — such as the now famous SAT oarsman — regatta analogy question — not by differences in students» abilities.
On Hardie's orders, the oarsman sitting nearest him beat one set of hands away before beginning on the hands of the blue - eyed man.
He was reminded by one of his oarsmen not to forget president of one of the best college societies.
Astern we made out an oarsman adeptly maneuvering the craft through muddy crosscurrents.
Assyrian reliefs from the 8th century BC show Phoenician fighting ships, with two levels of oars, fighting men on a sort of bridge or deck above the oarsmen, and some sort of ram protruding from the bow.
Dressed as an oarsman, which he was, in a sleeveless shirt and a straw hat, Caillebotte anchors the lower right of the Phillips's painting.
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