Word: crew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next afternoon he went up Puget Sound to a famed stretch of salmon water off Anderson Island. No fisherman, the President got into a skiff with a crew of willing advisers: Governor Wallgren; Nick Bez, a burly Yugoslav who operates Alaskan fishing fleets; and Costa Lazzaratti, the Governor's excitable Italian cook. Despite them he hauled in nothing but a sharklike dogfish. But the wind was cool, the day bright, and a nearby fisherman presented him with a 12-lb. king salmon...
...they had been chiefly partisans and leftists. But if they did not build for all men instead of political parties, all mankind instead of a social class, their work would be patchwork, their tenure, as history reckons time, brief. And the despairing inhabitants would probably ask the next crew to raze the old house to the ground and start building over again from the ground...
...repeated intrusion of the word 'Gentlemen.'" As dean of British belles-lettres, Q was not popular with the younger poets, whom he carefully omitted from the revised Oxford Book of 1940 and attacked as dispirited pessimists ("What are they for he cried, "if they cannot hearten the crew with auspices of day light...
...Station--Boston 3 11 May 12 Army Base Officers (POE) 11 5 May 14 U.S. Navy Receiving Sta. (Fargo Bldg.) 5 13 May 23 Squantum N.A.S 1 9 May 26 At Exeter 8 12 June 9 Army Base Enlisted Men (POE) 3 0 31 50 Won 2 Lost 4 CREW A Time Distance April 28 U.S. Naval Acad. and M.I.T. 1 3/4 1st U.S. Naval Acad. 10:07 2nd Harvard 10:13 3rd M.I.T 10:14 May 5 M.I.T. and Cornell 1 3/4 1st M.I.T. 9:17.5 2nd Cornell 9:20 3rd Harvard 9:25 CREW B Time Distance April...
...looking forward to a full program of athletics, as far as manpower permits, including crew, tennis, and baseball. All games, said Getchell, will be scheduled for Wednesdays and Saturdays, as was done this past term, though he may have to limit sports to Saturdays alone, if not enough players are available...