Word: captains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact, the only U. S. female college where crew is a major sport is Wellesley, at Wellesley, Mass. Last week Wellesley rowing came into the public eye and the public eye was pleased, for pretty little Maimie Sze, daughter of the Chinese Minister to the U. S., was appointed captain of the freshman crew. No muscled oarswoman she, but the coxswain who steers the boat and shouts out the rhythm loud and strong. Popular, she is also custodian of the Wellesley Athletic Association...
...Hoboken, and sellers of them would be "short." Then the buyers could make them "pay through the nose," as Wall Street's cruel saying describes the desperate predicament of one who sells what he does not possess. Wireless orders dashed from Manhattan to the Southern Cross's captain bidding him drive his engines to their limits of safety. The ship pushed north past the Florida keys, past Cape Hatteras, into New York Harbor-before the coffee markets closed for March...
...straight," said Fred Genazzi of Point Reyes, Calif., to Captain W. B. Sellner, State Fish and Game Commissioner, who had accused him of dumping garbage on his (Sellner's) property...
...Then Captain Sellner produced a bedspread and a movie camera, entertained the court with scenes of garbage-dumping in which Mr. Genazzi played the leading role. The court gave Mr. Genazzi 30 days in jail...
...river that slides down through a quiet country where the hills are piled up like velvet pillows, past the quick glittering chaos of Manhattan, into the quiet Atlantic. Up this river the Captain sailed, hoping to find the splendor of China and a western ocean beyond some twist of a valley in those small and comfortable mountains...