Word: scull
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pertti Karpinnen: two years ago, he was considered the best single scull in the world and perhaps the best rower ever. The 6-ft., 6-in. 225-lb. Finn won three straight Olympic Gold medals...
...scull: to row with two blades. This is as opposed to sweeping, which is with one blade per person. Sculling can be an individual sport--a shell with just one sculler is called a single...
Last week's impressive collections, including those of Robert and Ethel Scull and James Johnson Sweeney, former director of the Guggenheim Museum, are probably being sold now in anticipation of the new tax law, which, beginning Jan. 1, will raise the Government's take on a seller's profit. The high prices ! owe much to the decline of the dollar, which makes even a seven-figure painting seem like a bargain to wealthy Japanese and Germans, and to the scarcity of quality works on the market...
Perseverance and intense desire to win have characterized Parker's illustrious rowing career. After beginning to row at Penn in 1953, he went on to win the American single scull championship and single scull gold medal at the 1959 Pan American Games...
...lean and solid port rower has achieved many successes in individual scull competition, but "there's nothing like rowing in a good eight, "Parker says. "The team experience is unique--there's no other sport where eight people are so obviously dependent on one another...