Word: crew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Herbert Hoover set out from Washington to Palo Alto, to vote for himself and be voted for. At Cumberland, Md., he paused and spoke again about Prosperity. One aside in this speech revealed the political flair which he had seldom been suspected of having. Spying some of the train crew in the crowd he said: "I think I ought to tell them I am grateful to them. . . . I have come to think of this strip of railroads across the middle of America as my own Main Street, on which I make my journeys from my office to my own front...
That return journey last week was terrific for the airship's crew. East of Newfoundland they headed into a gale. It threatened to crack up the boat. Dr. Hugo Eckener headed into the wind and slowed his motors. The wind blew him backwards at the rate of 32½ ft. a second...
Elected. Dr. Frank Parker Day, onetime Second Lieutenant in the King's Colonial Imperial Yeomanry, Major of the 28th New Brunswick Dragoons; Master of Arts at Christ Church (The House), Oxford, college boxer, crew man; English lecturer at Swarthmore College, as president of Union College to succeed Dr. Charles Alexander Richmond, resigned...
Members of the four oared crew which represented United States in the Olympics last summer will receive the minor sport "11" it was announced yesterday by the H. A. A. as a result of a last Monday meeting of the Harvard Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports...
...time the wrecking crew arrived, cadets and passengers had helped themselves so successfully that it remained only to rush the more severely wounded to Bucharest and tidy up the track. Pencil Man Herschler was taken safely to the hospital...