Word: crew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...true that, hideous though local scenes were-a shell lighting on the crew of a pillbox, a riddled fighting plane screeching to its crash, a forest suddenly illuminated at night by roaring red dynamite, a man crawling back through the grass to an aid station-they were as nothing compared to what could & would take place when one side or other turned loose its full offensive power. When & where that offensive would come remained inscrutable at the end of the war's third week, but major stirrings and preparations, monstrous massing of men on both sides, boded cataclysm soon...
...that the crew rebelled. They wanted Captain Borkowski or nobody. They did not want to go to Canada and carry munitions to Britain. Moreover, there was some back pay due them. They would not sail. Police were summoned...
Speakers at the meeting included William J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics; Dick Harlow, football coach; Hal Ulen, coach of the swimming team; and Tom Bolles, crew mentor...
Every man had a station on a gun crew or in the gun director, working on ballistics. They received actual experience in anti-aircraft firing, star shell firing, blackouts, and searchlight drills, as well as in the ordinary mechanics of firing...
Lacking the heft he acquired later, Nicholas Murray Butler was rejected for crew and football at Columbia College† but played on the cricket team. Meanwhile, he edited the Acta Columbiana, taught in private schools, wrote for the New York Tribune, paid most of his expenses and finished college with $1,000 in the bank...