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Word: crew (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard's eight pulled down the river in short bursts, testing a variety of cadences. In the bow of his launch, Tom Bolles chewed gum, bellowed instructions through a megaphone and watched every move of his long-legged crew. A big man himself, he has no time for little men: "Unless he's six-feet-four and his hands hang down around his knees, he can't be a good oarsman." At Cambridge Bridge, the coach went wild yelling at a flock of dinghies to clear the course. In a practice spin at 2,000 meters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Unless He's Six-Feet-Four . . . | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

Clipped Voice. An effective anti-jamming device is a "de-emphasizing and pre-emphasizing clipper" developed by Herrick and his crew. It distorts the voice a little but at the same time makes it more intelligible and harder to obliterate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Air-Wave Battle | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

...title-holding Lowell baseball team lost to Yale's Branford College. 5 to 4, in New Haven Saturday, while the champion Eliot crew and golf team and the Leverett tennis team defeated their Eli counterparts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lowell Nine Bows to Yale | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

...Band will be playing later in the month, aboard an excursion steamer, at the Harvard-Yale crew races on June 25 at New London, Conn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Band Travels To Stanford If Funds Flow | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

...Eliot's crew grabbed an early one length lead from Jonathan Edwards College and finished the same distance ahead without ever using its sprint...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lowell Nine Bows to Yale | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

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