Word: crew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sumner, who says his parents have approved of the plan, is looking for a two-man crew to make the trip and share expenses. He plans to have the boat built in Japan and sail the southern route, stopping at Guam, Wake, Midway, and the Hawaiian Islands...
...scheduling two baseball games, a triangular track meet, the only home crew regatta of the year as well as tennis and lacrosse matches, Bingham has laid the foundation for the weekend and promises to repeat this type of schedule next year if the dance proves successful...
Major sports--basketball, Clifton D. Crosby '50; baseball, Miles D. Huntington '50; crew, Michael J. Scully '48; football Houston; hockey, William L. Garrity, Jr. '50; swimming, Robert N. Berke '51; Track, Trimble...
...session was the longest in peacetime since 1922, and it had been a stormy voyage. Harry Truman's Fair Deal often seemed about to founder with all its cargo. But the crew, checking over what was left after many an item had been jettisoned, found it amounted to a fair-sized package...
...Pennsylvania Railroad was designing a trash can. That was successful, so he went to work blueprinting a new locomotive. To find out what was wrong with old engines, Loewy rode them for thousands of miles, noting such things as the absence of a toilet for the crew (he installed one), and the fact that smoke sometimes obscured, the engineer's vision (he devised a vane to deflect it). He wound up designing not only new locomotives but whole new trains for Pennsylvania (Broadway Limited, "Spirit of St. Louis," The General, Liberty Limited, etc.), and modern new stations as well...