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Word: crewed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paradoxically, the triumphant Bunnies managed to amass their 1,144 point total without a single sole championship in any of the major sports. In those fields, football was won by Kirkland, basketball by Leverett and Lowell, squash and crew by Eliot, and baseball by Eliot and Winthrop...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bunnies Edge Elephants for Straus Award | 5/22/1947 | See Source »

...lighthouse-keeper heard a jarring explosion, then two more. An enormous pillar of smoke shot up from the pool of gasoline flames on the water. By the time fishing boats and the Coast Guard reached the scene, all that was left of the Constellation and its four-man crew were some floating wreckage, a few bits of burned flesh and charred clothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTER: Ill-Starred | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

Eight men from Eliot House rowed the Henley distance--d mile and 5-16--in seven minutes and 29 seconds in chilly Charles Basin at dusk yesterday to nose out the Winthrop crew by a deck length and cop the House crew championship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot Wins House Crew Crown with 7:29 Henley Run in Twilight Regatta | 5/16/1947 | See Source »

...cartoons and four incidental drawings. The drawings are reasonably good, if uninspired, but the cartoons don't seem to belong. A couple of letters to the editors are perhaps the most amusing part of the magazine. One, from a Cliffedweller named Annabelle Freud, complains subtly about the murderous crew of characters in the stories of the last issue. Happily, the editors have taken her advice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On the Shelf | 5/16/1947 | See Source »

Inconsistent performance can be blamed on the fact that this year's crews, like Bolles', are inexperienced. Unlike pre-war years when a varsity beat would have oarsmen with four years of competition in one crew or another, this spring is only the second big-time season since the enforced layoff...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 5/15/1947 | See Source »

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