Word: crew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Major General George Glas Sandeman Carey, 81, whose nondescript force of some 3,000 clerks, signalmen, and U.S. railway engineers prevented a breakthrough to Amiens in the Second Battle of the Somme in 1918; in Portsmouth, England. Moving quickly as the Germans threatened, Carey and his motley crew held out for six days until relieved. It earned him a personal commendation before Parliament from Prime Minister Lloyd George...
Last year, the 'Cliffe crew was left high and dry when University authorities declared Weld Boat Club was not big enough for both Harvard and Radcliffe crews...
Cambridge firemen answered a phoned alarm at 8:33 o'clock, sending six engines and a rescue squad to the scene. A crew quickly chopped through the hall wall and extinguished the smouldering mass in short order...
Cornell, the only crew to down the Crimson in 1947, is also a naval power to be reckoned with. Although they are not at their best over the Olympic distance they will race this year...
Bolles refuses to worry about Yale's powerful Freshman aggregation that downed the Harvard yearlings last June. He dismisses the threat with, "That was the slowest Freshman crew Harvard has had since I've been here." He is just as unperturbed by the extensive training program that Eli coach Skip Walz has put his charge through since last fall, and he even shrugs off the fact that every rival crew has already been in the water for several weeks. "You can only train a crew just so long," is the Bolles theory...