Word: crewed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...72nd time, the Harvard heavyweight crew team...
...students say they stay because the pay isgood, but there are sometimes added rewards fordorm crew workers. While most of the trash comingfrom the empty rooms consisted of crumpled paperand sheer dirt, dorm crew workers say theyoccasionally find "garbage" of value. And althoughdorm crew regulations say the discards should bethrown out, some workers keep or sell items thatare valuable...
...addition to change, books and boxes oflaundry detergent, dorm crew workers often findmore peculiar items. One worker, who asked not tobe identified, says she found a refrigerator, aninflatable giant mosquito and an untapped keg ofbeer in one of the rooms...
While the dorm crew has a reputation forthrowing out--or keeping--items of valueaccidentally left behind in the rooms, directorssays the crews take precautions to protectimportant leftovers...
While some dorm crew workers have discoveredinteresting or profitable items in the room, forothers the work has been nothing but tedious,tiring and dirty. Even the least messy jobs, likemaking beds, can be fraught with peril...