Word: crew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After this the Communists had their turn. For a solid six hours their speakers occupied the tribunal. Their arguments were of the usual Bolshevik brand. Deputy Doriot, the most notorious of his crew, declared...
...with blazing brimstone. Also, there are the two extraordinary prototypes of the bobbed-hair bandit, Pirates Mary Read and Anne Bonny, who successfully combined marauding and maternity. Author Hurd selects a dozen of the sea-rogues, letting a good tale justify its telling. Author Seitz collects a murderous crew of some two-score?all there were to be found, one feels and touches off the exhaustive store of anecdote in a rare, quirky style that smacks tartly of 18th Century...
...Maui, steaming out of the Golden Gate, was like a vessel going on a voyage of discovery. Aboard her, a little knot of a score or so Americans constituted the band of adventurers?a strange and motley crew, a handful of college presidents, as many professors, Y. M. C. A. officials, editors, a business man or two, a few politicians, a couple of women. At their head, Captain of the little band of élite and erudite adventurers, x-student at Frankfort-on-the-Main and Munich, Ray Lyman Wilbur, President of Leland Stanford Jr. University, gazed westward across...
Washington quickly pulled ahead and maintained the lead for three quarters of the course. The U. S. Naval Academy's crew followed closely, gradually pulled even, finally won by a length. Washington was second; Wisconsin, third; Pennsylvania, fourth; Syracuse, fifth; Cornell, sixth; Columbia, seventh...
...season, which means everything in the season that sport lovers could desire and sets the ball rolling for the man who talks a good track meet. Among the reprints, which follow this, there is "Rowing in the Fifties" by President Eliot, an article designed to recall that crew at Harvard originated when the Cambridge oarsmen used to low lumber home from Boston...