Word: crew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...star plays a worthy young man who becomes a pirate to avenge his father, murdered by other pirates. Vanquishing the leader of the wicked crew, he assumes command and takes the next prize singlehanded. Thereon he finds a lovely girl (Billie Dove). Subsequently he humanizes the pirates...
...five young women derive from Jack the Ripper. We infer, that is all. Yet that is ample to earn this Turk several graduate and honorary degrees in murdery. From the barest hints he becomes a lurking presence whose actuality Mr. Houdini could scarce disparage. He and his dirty crew begin ostensibly as figments in the imagination of a marriageable young Connecticut authoress of our time. Then they make it clear that as she has conceived, so shall she bear. No fair telling the end, shocking though it is; Miss Macfadyen has devised with restraint worthy of emulation. She handles substance...
...Union management has also announced a "Vacation Night" for Wednesday, March 31. It is the last of a series of meetings which the Union has been giving during the winter. The previous meetings of this kind have been devoted to football, track, crew and tennis. The new meeting will be like that of last year, which was devoted to the Southwest, when pictures were shown of Zion National Park and the Grand Canyon. The purpose of the pictures to be shown on the 31st is to give members of the Union information on possibilities of summer vacations in the West...
Last week it was announced from Cornell University that several new inventions in crew apparatus having to do with the oarlocks and seats, had been made which would be of importance in the future of the sport. Speculation has been current in all rowing circles as to the likely effect of these proposed innovations...
...doubt if any one will ever use them", H. H. Haines, coach of the Freshmen crew said when questioned, on this subject yesterday. "The idea isn't entirely fanciful, but I don't think there is anything like the saving of energy that they advertise, nor do I think they'll ever do a two mile course 25 lengths faster than they do now. The most important of these inventions is the sliding oar lock which is supposed to give an absolutely straight pull through. The idea is undoubtedly sound, but it is not likely to be widely adopted...