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