Word: crew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London's Thames River, the underdog Cambridge crew caught a crab at the start of its traditional race against Oxford. Then, with 200,000 people watching, Cambridge caught up with Oxford and forged ahead to win a five-length victory-in the fastest time since the race was first rowed in 1829. One Cambridge secret weapon: a cow that the crew had bought to insure a healthy supply of milk in food-scarce Britain...
...whole crew look unwholesome, joyless, depressed-and even sinister. ... I now know why the political articles are always cynical, the education column senseless gibberish, the religion column gloomy rubbish, devoid of inspiration, hope or spiritual benefit...
Beards & Steeples. Richard Chancellor, one of the most daring of these merchant adventurers, pressed northeast until he reached a world where there was "no night at all, but a continual light upon the huge and mighty sea." Debarking, he and his crew eventually ended up-in Moscow, where Ivan the Terrible amiably "took into his hand Master George Killings-worth's beard . . . and pleasantlie delivered it to the Metropolitane, who, seeming to bless it, ,saide in Russ, 'this is God's gift'; as indeed at that time it was ... in length five foote and two inches...
...casual athlete will find scores of his ilk in the House. As of this week, only one major team has not finished first in intramural standings since last spring, with baseball, softball, crew, football, hockey, and two squash teams winding up on top of the standings...
Veterans might crew lunds on Veterans' Administration excess charge forms to cover costs, hut Monro advised, "Most veterans realize that unless they have eligibility time to burn, this is not a good way to use their eligibility...