Word: crews
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strangest experiences that the crew of the Los Angeles ever had was when, last September, as the ship sailed low over Layton, N. J., a man ran out with a shotgun and fired a charge up into the big silvery bag. He accompanied his shot with dancing, gesticulations and lilliputian shouts. The lead pellets, though buckshot, tore only small holes in the ship's fabric. But they might have struck machinery, caused disaster. Had the Los Angeles been inflated with inflammable hydrogen instead of inert helium, she might have blown up. And anyway, it is not proper to shoot...
...Conn., June 9--Morris Ruggles Brownell Jr. '30, of Fairhaven, Massachusetts, was yesterday elected captain of the Junior University crew. A member of his Freshman eight and of the jayvees last season, he is now occuping the number 5 seat in the second Harvard shell...
...afternoon, the University combination rowed to the bridge in short stretches and then paddled upstream over the lower course, two and a half miles. The crew came home stopping only once. The jayvees also went to the bridge and rowed two miles up the lower course, coming home in several stretches...
...lineups remained the same as yesterday with Lawrence Dickey '30 continuing at No 5 in the University out-fit, where he replaced R. I. McKesson is now rowing in Dickey's former seat at No. 5 in the second crew...
...second Harvard crew went down the four-mile course at a stroke of 26 just before the University boat had its trial. No time was taken for this shell...