Word: captains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Willird L. Tibbetts of Harvard, winner of the 1925 championship, naturally will be an outstanding favorite to retain his title. Anyone who has seen the determined clear-striding little Harvard captain at his best will readily concede that the may lower the association record. The present mark of 9 minutes, 22 2-5 seconds, set by Ivan Dresser of Cornell in 1919, already has withstood six assaults...
...Daley, the newly elected leader of the Student Council has been one of the strongest men in the Crimson line for the last two years, and was Captain of his Freshman eleven. He was also President of the Freshman Class...
...University tennis team which has not been scored on this season, express to keep its string to victories unbroken this afternoon. The Crimson line-up will be the same as usual with the possible exception of Captain Whitbeck who must be unable to play...
...great Los Angeles thrust her monstrous grey stern-snout out of the hangar at Lakehurst, N. J. Sniffs of the wind augured well for several days aloft. The motors roared and rumbled, the huge celestial torpedo pushed up for her first extended trip since last July. Heading southeast, Captain George W. Steele Jr. guided her out over Barnegat Bay, then down to Atlantic City and to Cape May through bumpy air seas. Over Barnegat Lighthouse some internal wires had snapped; a waterline had burst, from one of the steam-condensers (to recover water from a motor's cooling jacket). Back...
Wilkins. After 13 ominous days without word from Captain Wilkins and Pilot Ben Eielson, the supporting party of the Detroit Arctic Expedition, at Fairbanks, finally picked up faint radio signals. It was Operator Waskey of the expedition's overland sledging party, calling from Point Barrow, which he had just reached by forced marches. Wilkins and Eielson were?the signals were very faint?were there, safe, in a fur-trader's comfortable cabin. They had reached Point Barrow the day of their last departure from Fairbanks, after a hairbreadth escape in the cloud-hung Endicott Mountains. Heavy-laden, the monoplane Alaskan...