Word: crew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spunkiness of the small nations clustered around Germany was one of the best clues to Europe's rapidly changing lineup. Defenseless Norway dared to disregard a strong German protest that the internment of the Nazi prize crew that captured the U. S. freighter City of Flint was an unfriendly act. Little Yugoslavia mustered enough independence to send home unsatisfied a Nazi trade delegation that had tried to increase delivery of goods to Germany. Rumania, hardest-pressed of the Balkans, felt secure enough from Nazi wrath to decrease her oil deliveries from 4,100 tons to less than...
Rugged Pitcairn Island, the seagirt Pacific refuge of H. M. S. Bounty's, storied mutineers, heard nothing of Britain's last war until months after the outbreak. Word of it was finally brought to Bounty Bay by the crew of a Tahitian tramp. That was before a best-selling trilogy and a four-star movie made Pitcairn Island the most publicized hideout on the seven seas, and prompted a well-meaning, sympathetic U. S. to enrich the 200-odd hybrid islanders with all sorts of civilized niceties, including a powerful amateur short-wave radio station, VR6AY...
Meanwhile Japan also turned on the U. S., reacting violently from its soft answers to Ambassador Joseph Clark Crew's dressing-down of last month. Mr. Tetsuma Hashimoto, president of a one-man patriotic society called the Purple Cloud, bought five columns in the Tokyo newspaper Yomiuri to call the U. S. "a pampered millionaire who dabbles in charity without having known suffering." In one of Japan's fishy journalistic coincidences, three important papers all poked fun at the U. S. on the same morning. The Foreign Office spokesman said that Japan will not remain indifferent...
...Next Spring's changes are about as good as usual," said Freshman crew mentor Harvey Love yesterday afternoon at the Newell Boathouse, but refused to commit himself any further...
When asked whether any definite crew had been picked, he stated that some fellows were possibilities because of their build, but that any others had just as much chance. "What really counts is the winter rowing in the tanks. That's most important because you're right under our supervision, and we can show you your mistakes and teach you how to overcome them...