Word: crew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With a week of hard practice during the Easter holidays behind them, the Varsity crew is beginning to shape up well. A first boat that was put together before vacation seems to be fairly definite, and no changes are expected before the first race...
There are only two seniors in the first boat, Rowe and Talbot, which means one thing in particular--that Harvard has a chance in the Olympic trials next year. However, as far as this one fact is concerned, the California crew and the Yale crew are both starting out the season with no seniors aboard...
...another window a mannequin lying on a bed of glowing coals under a stuffed trophy, which the artist described as "the decapitated head and the savage hoofs of a great somnambulist buffalo extenuated by a thousand years of sleep." Working all one night with Bonwit's regular window crew, Surrealissimo Dali finished in time for the store's opening at 9:30 a. m. Then he retired to his hotel...
...apparatus for refining measurements of light's speed still further. It is compact enough to be housed in a small laboratory room and hallway, it eliminates friction as a source of error, and the measurement is automatic-that is, the human eye is not a factor (the Michelson crew aimed their beams by eye) and the clocking is done, in effect, by a photoelectric cell...
...summery Tokyo Golf Club, light-looking but earthquake-and-typhoon-proof homes, the remarkable Women's Christian College in Tokyo (see cut) of precast and reinforced concrete, with everything from stained glass to concrete and wrought-iron altar made on the spot by Architect Raymond's crew of craftsmen...