Word: crew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...range of the machine gun. Then the pepper pyre was lighted. Thick clouds of oily, acrid, pepper smoke poured up to envelop the steeple, blind, gag, choke. Passed ten minutes. Then the bolts of the church door grated. Out to surrender filed a sorry, coughing, spitting, weepy little crew of federals. Their rebel captors, pious, had thus avoided the desecration of bursting open a church. Entering the sacred edifice with loud, exultant hosannahs and cries of "Christ is King" they sat down and soon partook of the feast of the Eucharist. Untroubled by the transitory rebel occupation of Cocula, General...
...July the Arctic is clotted with ice, not frozen over. Every 25 miles or so are lakes amidst the ice cakes. With a crew of twelve men and oxygen to supply them under water for 48 to 60 hours if necessary, Explorer Wilkins believes he can cross between Spitsbergen, Norway, and Point Barrow, Alaska, within three weeks...
...Swaim '31 stroked the winning crew to a victory over the shell stroked by P. H. Watts '31, which in turn left the crew with R. I. McKesson '31 setting the beat behind in a hard fought race over the winding course...
From there on the water grew continually rougher due to a quartering east wind. The Seniors took the lead shortly after passing under the Harvard Bridge and were followed closely by the second year crew with S. W. Swami '31 setting the beat. The juniors trailing slightly in the rough water, made their final bid for second place in the last quarter mile, crossing the finish line a half length behind the Sophomores...
...time of the winning crew 30 minutes 33 seconds, was due larger to the rough conditions and the course quest shipping of considerable amounts of water...