Word: crew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three University crews will leave for Philadelphia tonight where they will represent the Crimson in the American Henley on the Schuylkill Saturday afternoon. In addition to the Second and Third University crews, Captain Merrill's 150-pound eight is entered in the Philadelphia Regatta, in which 47 crews will strive for honors. Coach Stevens will accompany the Second crew to Philadelphia, and leave immediately after the race...
...pound Crew--Won by Harvard by two lengths. Yale second...
...crew set busily to work, preparing the cases for delivery over the ship's sides. Occasionally, a mate would gaze expectantly over the waters, looking for the swift little rum runner which would surely come. Hours passed. Then, suddenly, four small motor craft raced into sight, came up to the Pellegrini, but not alongside. They circled around and around-picket boats of the U. S. Coast Guard...
...Pellegrini, well provisioned, prepared to stay a month, until this new official nonsense might cease. But, a few days later, she was visited by a Coast Guard vessel on inspection, was notified that war had begun. Her crew offered a case of champagne for a package of cigarets, but the contract was not concluded...
...accepted. In acceptance trials, the OL-1, as the Amphibian is officially designated, attained a height of 14,000 ft, made a speed of 125 mi. per hour and climbed more than 5,000 ft. in ten minutes. Fully loaded, the plane weighs 5,200 lb., and carries a crew of four men. With its inverted engine giving the pilot clear vision ahead; its retractible gear allowing the plane to alight on ship deck, on land, on sea, or to roll up a beach under its own power; with its photographic, wireless and heating arrangements, the Loening is the last...