Word: crab
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Frame '30, of New York, senior singles title holder of last year, retained his championship in the closing and perhaps closest race of the afternoon, when after having caught a crab at the start, he drew up to the front and sped across the finish line of the short 300-yard sprint. He was closely followed by J. G. Park, who had qualified for this race by winning the men's Novice Singles, and by S. D. Peirce '32, Frame's time of 1 minute and 1 second is short only three seconds of his record time of last year...
Park's excellent time in the first of Friday's events, the novice singles, one minute, three seconds, gave him the victory over W. H. Holcombe, Harvard Varsity bow oar, who caught a crab a few strokes from the finish line. Park took this race from the winners of the five preliminary heats on Thursday, which desposed of a record turnout for one event. His brother, T. L. M. Park captured the men's broad compromise battle in fine style. Holcombe started a favorite for the novice singles sprint, as he turned in remarkable time...
...satisfied to let Yale set the pace. From time to time, fencing with Bill Garnsey in the stern of the other shell, he sent his beat up, dropped it again when Yale answered the challenge. Finally, after two miles and a half, Quarrier, Yale No. 4, caught a crab. It was the break that Cassedy had been waiting for. This time when the Harvard beat went up, the bow of the Harvard shell began to creep along Yale's gunwhale slowly & steadily until the boats were even half a mile from the finish. They stayed that way for quarter...
...large contraption that looked something like a horseshoe crab with a fin on its back and a propeller in its nose was wheeled out on the airport at South Bend. Ind. one day last week. Glenn Fesler Doolittle, 23-year-old cousin of famed Pilot Jimmy Doolittle, climbed into a pit in the crab's back and flew it away. Around & around the airport he flew, as fast as 97 m.p.h. (although the motor was only 37 h.p.), flipping and diving the weird machine like a kite in a gusty sky. Finally he brought it down, sinking gently...
Under the terms of the award, any craft propelled by the man power of an undergraduate publication may issue a challenge within two weeks of the date scheduled for the races. The American Association for the Advancement of Annual Amateur Crab-catching Carnivals between College Comics and Dailies was founded to improve international relations...