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Word: crew (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bolles is worrying about anything these days, it isn't about filling his Varsity boat when the time comes for the crew to move out on the Charles next spring. For, to be short, he has a whole batful of good material, and his problems consist mostly in finding the right man for the right slot before the first race...

Author: By R. SCOT Leavitt, | Title: Lining Them Up | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

...almost any standards, last year's crew was not successful. After coming in second to Cornell in the opener (they beat out Princeton with a terrific surge in the last quarter mile), the oarsmen journeyed unfruitfully to Annapolis, coming in ninth in a field of nine, lost to M.I.T. on the Charles, whipped an unpracticed Yale crew for the eighth successive time, and accepted an invitation to the Washington regatta in Seattle during the summer term. In the far reaches of the West, the crew came in fifth among ten crews, but were driving hard at the finish and probably...

Author: By R. SCOT Leavitt, | Title: Lining Them Up | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

Vince enlisted in the Navy in the spring of 1943 and later that year was a member of the crew of the U.S.S. Lansdale, which was sunk off Anzio Beach. In that engagement, he was wounded in both legs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vince Moravec Elected 1947 Football Captain | 11/27/1946 | See Source »

Last week he told his White House crew of a personal decision: he intended to make no campaign for delegates to the 1948 Democratic convention. Harry Truman felt he could serve his country and his party best by concentrating his full attention on the two years ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRESIDENCY: Before the Storm | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

...band ceased their nightly proceedings and announced the Hall outfit. The Savoy's faithful, meanwhile, plus a few astute intellectuals come to hear the great New Orleans master had filled up most of the tables and gave him a big hand as he managed to extract his well dressed crew from their various tete a tetes around the room and lead them up on stage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jazz | 11/22/1946 | See Source »

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