Word: crew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Profound conviction that the Democrats need no assistance in harming themselves continued to inspire G. O. P.'s McNary. Such remaining oppositionists as Missouri's fat Bennett Clark, North Dakota's Gerald Nye, California's Hiram Johnson, constituted not a real Opposition but a malformed crew without plan or leader. Thus deprived of the full-dress performance previously advertised by Senator Clark & Co., the public had to make out last week with some informative sideshows...
Guests of honor from Cambridge will be William Bingham, Director of Athletics, Jerome D. Green, Secretary to the Harvard University Corporation, Torbert H. Macdonald '40, captain of next year's gridders, Richard H. Sullivan '39, President of the Undergraduate Council, and Dudley Talbot '38, leader of the '39 crew...
...Crew cuts are gradually going out" said one man, a trimmer of Harvard heads for 20 years. "About seven years ago the boys began to wear their hair for comfort instead of looks. But the girls are beginning to put the pressure on the crew cuts now. The boys who do let their hair grow have it cut only about once a month...
...evident from Italian newspapers, which warned Britain that it was now too late to be nice to Generalissimo Franco. A more direct sign of displeasure came when Rebel bombers raided Port Mahon while the Devonshire was still in the harbor, dropping their cargoes so near the cruiser that the crew manned her anti-aircraft guns. Not much more reassuring for the British was a Rebel version of the Minorca surrender which ungratefully toned down Britain's "good offices," trumped up a tale about a brief but heroic landing on the island which ended in its capitulation...
...Army Air Corps and get assigned to Luke Field, Hawaii. In a high moment last November, Mechanic Fleigelmann decided to fly back 2,400 miles to San Francisco in a Douglas B18 bomber, which can fly 2,000 miles with a full load and the usual crew of six experienced men. Inasmuch as Private Fleigelmann was not even one experienced flier, he was lucky to crawl out of the wreckage in a pineapple patch five miles from Luke Field...