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...sixth might power stroke, when a member of the port side caught a crab, Harvard moved backwards again. Never regaining composure, the Crimson J.V. slapped even with the Coast Guard during the next 500 meters at a dangerously high cadence...

Author: By Amy Sacks, | Title: Harvard, Radcliffe Crews Win Weekend Meets | 4/19/1976 | See Source »

With 30 strokes to go, the windless Crimson started a valiant sprint and pulled ahead of the Cadets. On the last stroke, another Crimson J.V. caught a crab...

Author: By Amy Sacks, | Title: Harvard, Radcliffe Crews Win Weekend Meets | 4/19/1976 | See Source »

Deep fried or steamed, the Atlantic blue crab is a gourmet's delight. William Warner's book about Callinectes sapidus (the creature's first name is Greek for beautiful swimmer, its last, Latin for tasty) is a reader's treat. Warner, a consultant to the Smithsonian Institution, has spent years studying the blue crab and his human harvesters in their natural habitat, Maryland's Chesapeake Bay. The result of his study is a piece of popular oceanography worthy of shelf space alongside Rachel Carson's classic Edge of the Sea and Henry Beston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Of Crabs and Men | 3/29/1976 | See Source »

...crab capital of America. Warner is equally appreciative of his friends' boats, those eccentric skipjacks, scrapers, draketails and Jenkins Creekers found only on Chesapeake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Of Crabs and Men | 3/29/1976 | See Source »

...like a crab...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Horse Feathers | 3/23/1976 | See Source »

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