Word: skill
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...river, cheering on their crews, tumbling over each other sometimes in the wildest confusion, - for the path is narrow, and at one place there is but a very miserable wooden bridge, where there is always a terrible crush. The steering of the crews is a matter of the greatest skill; for a bump must be fairly made, an overlapping, merely, counts for nothing, and the coxswain of a boat which is in danger of being bumped is allowed to change his course as he thinks fit, to prevent the bump being made...
...whom the skill of the busy days...