Word: crew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hint of spring this morning with the announcement by the H.A.A. of the spring sports schedule for Crimson Varsity and Junior Varsity teams. Baseball leads the list with thirteen games, including two with Yale, while Jaakko Mikkola's track team is entered in five meets, Tom Bolles' Varsity crew will row in three regattas...
...Varsity Crew: May 4, Cornell, Princeton, and M.I.T.; May 11, Cornell, Columbia, Navy, M.I.T., Princeton, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Rutgers at Annapolis; May 18, M.I.T...
...Germany's death approached, Annie, realistic as always, realized that she, too, must fall. For several days, the crew sadly reported approaching Yanks. On the fatal night, grave messages came over 1212 with disturbing frequency. Suddenly the broadcast was interrupted by excited voices, a scuffle in the outer room, shouts and shots. The hated Allies were seizing the transmitter! "Put on the record, the RECORD!", a German voice shouted. And as Annie began, so she died, with the reedy, recorded Rhenish tune...
...mere emptiness. It is chockfull, among other things, of searing X rays from the sun, electron-streams hot out of sunspots, powerful cosmic rays from the depths of space. These are checked by the atmosphere before they smack the earth's surface. Their possible effect on the crew of a comparatively thin-skinned spaceship is something to dampen the enthusiasm even of astronauts...
...basketball teams ever stirred the fans or stumped the experts like this year's Notre Dame crew. One day they put on terrific second-half rallies; next day they roll up a lead and play second-half dead ducks. They have won six of their twelve games by a bare three-point margin or less...