Word: crew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great strike of 1921, Horner even forced the safety crew to walk out of the Maerdy mines. Without the safety men, the mines were flooded. Arthur Horner was jailed again. It was not until seven years later that some of the Maerdy mines were reopened, but they ran at a loss and had to be sold. The owners were beaten, but so was Maerdy. Today it is a silent town in which not a pit wheel turns...
...pleasant little hill had been. He remembered walking up it countless times on the way to Warren House, in the days of compulsory exercise and English A themes. The place was changing, Vag thought, as he crossed Massachusetts Avenue. On the corner of Plympton Street, two fellows in crew cuts and seersucker jackets had just thrown their weekend bags into their Ford and were starting the engine. Suddenly Vag remembered it was Friday, and he was taking the two o'clock out to the Cape. He quickened his pace. A fast lunch of chicken salad and iced coffee in Lowell...
Actually, Weld isn't entirely uninhabited. Between 160 and 180 per day slip in unobtrusively to work out singly or under Haines' direction. The genial lightweight crew coach estimates that 60 percent are in the graduate schools...
...past spring Haines' Varsity crew went undefeated for the second straight year. Since they raced every lightweight boat in the world, they can claim an unofficial international championship to match the Varsity heavies' unofficial national championship...
Furthermore, concerning their prowess, Varsity coach Tom Bolles has remarked that Haines' one-fifties were about the sixth best crew in the country, regardless of weight, at the Henley distance...