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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Overcoming a one length lead which a Sophomore eight stroked by James Lawrence, Jr. '29 had gained in the early minutes of a mile and a half race, another 1931 crew with C. McK. Norton '29 in the stroke seat won out over five class crews in the Charles River Basin yesterday afternoon. The winning crew with the exception of the stroke was the same that was piloted to victory by R. I. McKesson '31 on Tuesday afternoon. The race was rowed from above the Cottage Farm Bridge to a point about a quarter of a mile beyond the Harvard...
...propitious for the Junior and Senior eights since both trailed the combination crew as well as the 1931 oarsmen. The 1930 eight stroked by McKesson rowed at a lower beat than its four rivals and although it came up fast at the finish the prow of the shell did not get beyond the waist of the combination crew boat. The latter with H. W. Sturges '30 in the stroke position was materially aided by a one length handicap...
Work on the razing of two wooden tenement houses in the block between De Wolfe and Plympton Streets is now under way, it was announced yesterday by A. L. Endicott '94, comptroller of the University. One of these houses is already nearly demolished and the wrecking crew yesterday began work on the other...
...screen presentation "The Crash" concerns the romance of a girl from a burlesque show and the boss of a wrecking crew. Their troubles and quarrels in a small town are extended to the utmost...
Puntarenas. On a sandy bottom 50 feet below sea level off the coast of Costa Rica the U.S. submarine 529 lay prostrate on, its belly. Within, its crew perspired and waited. Divers descended, hoses were screwed to newly installed valves in the submarine's side, cool air invaded the sunken fish. Soon, afterward the divers attached air hoses to the ballast tanks of the vessel; then, cocking a snook through the heavy glass ports at those within, the divers rose to the surface. Great eddies began to surge from the ballast tanks as the water was forced...