Word: crew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thick white towel around his neck, steps from a launch, calls the day's offender aside, and with gestures explains in a gentle, English-tinged voice, "Now, this is the surface of the water, and my palm, here, is the blade of the oar . . ." The boyish enthusiasm over crew and Bert Haines among the men he has handled in 27 Harvard seasons indicates that in him the College has something very much like a genius at work...
...strokers rank with the crew as the only undefeated College Varsity. Two intercollegiate tournaments and a possible Yale match remain to be played...
...Normandy. Last week the "miracle ship," stripped of her fighting gear, was being towed to a scrapper's yard when the gales hit. The Warspite was swept aground near a Cornish town named Mousehole. Then the big seas lifted her close to shore. A lifesaving crew, risking destruction, got the crewmen safely ashore. But the Warspite was doomed to final breakup on the jagged rocks...
Apparently the Varsity crew likes to see other college oarsmen row, and for the second successive Saturday, they seized the best vantage point--first place, this time against Navy, M.I.T., and Penn on the Severn River at Annapolis...
...Varsity 150-pound crew defeated the Jayvee lightweights, M.I.T.'s 150's, and Tabor in an informal race on the Charles Saturday. Meanwhile, the Freshman 150-a won over the third College crew, M.I.T.'s light Freshmen, and Tabor's second boat in a similar engagement...