Word: crew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Income. In Los Angeles, Joe Chavers got his .lunch wagon stuck in the path of a Santa Fe passenger train, leaped to safety in the nick of time as the train hit the wagon, demolished everything but the coffee urn, from which Chavers sold hot java to the train crew and spectators...
...varsity lightweight race the Crimson crew had little trouble finishing a length in front of Navy, with M.I.T. third, to win the Haines Trophy. The time for the race over the mile and five-sixteenths course was 6:59.6. Last week, against M.I.T. alone, the varsity rowed the course under rougher conditions...
...heavyweight varsity crew, rowing the last race of the day in order to take advantage of falling wind, finished a length and three-quarters in front of a hard-rowing Syracuse boat. Even further behind were M.I.T. and B.U., in that order...
During the mile and three-quarter heavyweight races the varsity was pushed hard by M.I.T. for the first half mile. Rowing at the very high cadence of 38 strokes per minute the Tech crew held a slight lead over the varsity, rowing at 34. But the Crimson slowly pulled ahead of the tiring Tech oarsmen and led by a length after three-quarters of a mile...
Rowing into a slight headwind over good, but not the best, water, the Crimson crew turned in the time of 9:01.0. Syracuse covered the course in 9:08.5, three lengths ahead of M.I.T.'s 9:21.0. B.U. was another three and a half lengths back, finishing...