Word: crew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...freshman crew has stopped rowing on the river and will take long walks instead. The atmosphere of the river at this time of year has made many of them unwell...
...were definitely non-athletic, for although all presumably passed the three-hour-a-week requirement, only four of the 23 made a Freshman squad, two in football, one in track and one in crew...
...sales talk for his cousin's invention. Reminding his listeners that few ship passengers are experienced or horny-handed enough to handle 14-foot oars, he summed up the lever-run boat's chief advantage thus: "It can make four knots-a better speed than a trained crew of oarsmen can make-with a bevy of manicure girls at the levers...
...primarily with matters which, while not exactly left out of modern books, are usually slurred over, and in his pages four-letter words are as common as the things they stand for. Narrator of the story is a penniless, sex-obsessed writer living in Paris, who encounters an extraordinary crew of neurotics, prostitutes, perverts, poets and painters, with many of whom he has sexual relations, meanwhile borrowing money, cadging drinks and exploding into hysterical laughter at the misfortunes of his friends. Miller's prose, with its queer combination of unrestrained rhetoric and dry Yankee humor, the appalling clarity with...
...financial rocks by the fair-weather crew of heirs and advisers who had steered it since the death in 1932 of scroogy old Captain Robert Dollar, the round-the-world Dollar Steamship Line was taken in tow last August by the Maritime Commission. Of the $7,000,000 in subsidy and repair and working-capital loans then allotted, $4,000,000 was last week available, $2,000,000 of it earmarked for bringing the fleet up to snuff...