Word: crew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ellsworth of the U. S. flew in the dirigible Norge over the North Pole. Seventy-one freezing hours of flight cooled the entente cordiale between the Italian and his companions. Last week the Italian took off from Kings Bay, Spitsbergen, accompanied almost entirely by Italian scientists and an Italian crew, in the dirigible Italia, to explore the unknown regions around the North Pole for the glory of Mussolini and his Fatherland...
Harvard's varsity crew weighs 1480 pounds. It is the beefiest crew that has been put together by any college for a long time. Last week in Philadelphia the Harvard cheering section sitting in a temporary grandstand built on the edge of the Schuylkill River yelled themselves hoarse and the student band boomed and whooped as that beefy crew pulled past the judges' barge three quarters of a length ahead of Penn, with the Navy third. "Beat Yale at New London and then try for the Olympics!" cried Harvard old grads...
...Derby, Conn., the Yale crew, rowing beautifully, beat Princeton and Cornell without drama to win the Carnegie Cup. Cornell was four and a half lengths back at the finish and Princeton two lengths behind Cornell...
...Third Crew Sprints Too Late...
Outpaced by a brilliant Columbia light-weight crew from the opening gun of the American Henley race for 150-pound boats on the Schuylkill River last Saturday, the Crimson oarsmen lagged behind in the wake to fight for secondary position with Penn, Princeton, and Yale. Pulling sluggishly in the final quarter-mile, the Harvard entry took the wash of the three other shells and brought up the rear a length behind the Eli eight...