Word: crew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Never a serious contender for the lead, the Crimson Varsity crew finished fifth in a field of eight Saturday afternoon in the 2,000-meter Lake Washington regatta, most important collegiate rowing meet of the season...
Unexpected winner of the regatta was the Cornell boat, which came from behind to overtake the Washington eight, a crew rowing its first and only race of the season, and maintained its advantage to win by three-quarters of a length over M.I.T...
...Chestnut. The hub of this hubbub has a soft speaking voice, crew-cut brown hair, a shy smile and stands 5 ft. 10 in a Brooks Brothers suit. He traces his comic ancestry to Frank Fay (for sharpness and restraint) and Bing Crosby (for relaxation and affability). But his thoughtful, economical comedy style is probably more aptly compared with Chaplin...
...pine timberlands of the Southwest, a headsaw whined through the soft June night. Now & again the hooting of horned owls broke into the steady cough of the gasoline engine, the dull banging of the sawmill carriage, the slap, slap of cut slabs. At dawn, the fireflies and the old crew left the sawmill and the day gang took over...
...present crew of diggers are certain to find many new prizes, for Peru is an archeological treasure house. Exciting unfinished business is the neatly planned city of Chan Chan, whose massive ruins cover twelve square miles. Chan Chan, 30 miles north of the Viru Valley, was probably the greatest prehistoric metropolis in the Americas. Its culture lasted until 1400, when the Incas swept down from the High Sierras, freezing Peruvian life to such brittle rigidity that it shattered to dust when the Spaniards came...