Word: crew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to reports from its feeble radio, often picked up by "hams," the Kon-Tiki's voyage had been reasonably uneventful. There had been one moderate storm, which did not endanger the buoyant raft. Whales, dolphins and sharks had played around her slowly drifting hulk, and the crew caught lots of fish...
...Seattle, Coach Tom Bolles' crack Harvard, crew rowed the 2,000-meter Olympic distance in a record 5 min. 49 sec. In doing so, Harvard, which always passes up Poughkeepsie, defeated nine of the eleven crews which raced at Poughkeepsie a fortnight ago. Navy, the Poughkeepsie winner, did not show up at Seattle, but the Harvard crew had already beaten Navy this season, was thus apparently the crew of the year...
...across the finish line at the Lake Washington Regatta in the astounding, record-breaking time of 5 minutes 49 seconds. The best time up to then for a placid surface was 13 seconds slower, and last Saturday Bolles was reliably reported to say that "this is the best sprint crew I ever coached...
...stroke in the number one shell, Bolles had Frank Cunningham, a 1942 150-pounder with a barrel chest and slim hips, who yesterday was chosen, along with number five, Jud Gale, for a Seattle sportswriter's all-star crew. Cunningham led the Crimson to victories at Annapolis, Princeton, and the Thames, besides at Lake Washington, which gives the Varsity an unofficial national championship...
...mile defeat on Lake Ithaca by Cornell, whom the Crimson downed twice at the 2000 meter distance, somewhat justifies Bolles' qualification "sprint" in his latest "best crew" quote. The length-and-a-half Varsity triumph against Yale on the Thames was nice to behold but again the crew did not look as impressive as they did at the Princeton regatta for the Olympic sprint distance...