Word: crew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shortly after nightfall the first 30-man crew shouldered the straps of oxygen tanks, pulled on masks and walked like Martians to the big cage elevator. It began its 540-ft. descent. After that, every four hours, night & day, a new rescue crew went down. Every four hours a black-faced, exhausted gang came up and terror hung in the tipple as women studied their faces. After a while bodies came up, too, each one on a stretcher, and each covered, neatly, but not warmly, by a blanket...
...years passed, legends sprang up about the spectral old house. The most persistent: it hid a fortune. But nobody but a policeman and crew from the gas company had ever got inside, and they had seen little. Burglars, who had tried, had backed out after setting off booby traps which deluged them with garbage...
...sessions from the coach's launch, Bolles watches his charges for evidence of number one boat ability. Since some men can go through the motions beautifully but lack the power to make a shell go, Bolles has to resort to a trial-and-error method to pick his leading crew. "What counts in crew," he says, "Is how far you can push the boat, not how many strokes you can make...
Adding to the difficulty of judging a crew and its oarsmen is the fact that course times are of little value. Although the Charles' current is relatively stable, the wind varies from day to day. Natural phenomena, such as the tides at New London, can change conditions enough to make as much as a 15-minute difference...
...Widener stacks. It is a self-satisfying labor, accompanied by a feeling that "we have made the effort, even if we don't excel." Of the American sports enthusiast who follows and plays football, baseball, and basketball for his team athletics, and who wonders why anyone would take up crew, Bolles smiles wisely and asks, "Have you ever rowed...