Word: crew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Monitor in the first encounter. The powder charge required to drive the shell through the armor had been cut in two by order of the War Department, it being deemed unsafe to the gunners. In the second encounter, after the Monitor had narrowly escaped being rammed, the crew in desperation used a full charge, which drove the projectile into the vitals of the Merrimac, and this ironclad never waited for another such broadside but turned and fled, leaving the little Monitor the master of the sea, and the savior of the Union...
...Norge's rigging and gondola, thence the engine vibration shook it loose in big pieces. The pieces were dropping on the whizzing propellers, to be batted viciously into the gas bag. As a hog will cut its throat swimming, the soaring Norge was perforating her own belly. The crew swarmed everywhere applying patches...
...decisive victory of the 1929 crew in the opening race of the Harvard-Penn-M.I.T. regatta last Saturday was the only bright spot in a day marked by five Crimson rowing defeats. In the feature race of the afternoon the University crew trailed Pennsylvania and M.I.T. by 'a length and a half and half a length respectively...
...dangerous bid for first place After the first eighth mile. Penn began to forge ahead with Tech's prow holding on about half a length in the rear. Harvard, a length behind, had dropped its stroke to 34 two points lower than Penn's. A little before the crews came to the bridge Tech started a sprint which carried it ahead of the Quaker crew...
This morning at 10 o'clock, the Freshman 150-pound crew and the Junior A crew, winners of the class championship, will leave for Derby where they meet the corresponding Yale eights tomorrow...