Word: crews
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...afternoon, the University crew paddled down to the three mile mark at a slow pace followed closely by Coach Brown in the "Black Pup" correcting the individual faults which were revealed in the four mile time trial last Saturday. On the return journey, Captain Watts did not lift the stroke above...
After luncheon aboard the yacht, the crew men were given their choice of sleeping during the return run or of studying in preparation for tomorrow's examinations. In the evening, the members of the first crew attended a dinner given by Mr. Robert Herrick '90 and General W. W. Skiddy for the combined Harvard and Yale oarsmen...
...decided not to use it on his proposed South-Polar flight, began to hum. The ship taxied out from the boat-landing of the Jeffrey Yacht Club in East Boston. Further out in the harbor the Friendship made four attempts to leave the water; then one of the crew of four stepped off onto a tug nearby. This time when the plane slid over the misty water the spray faded suddenly under her pontoons and the Friendship climbed up slowly in a curving line into the early morning. A man in a small boat, one of the few witnesses, shouted...
...Friendship's departure had been shrouded in reticence by backers (principally Mrs. Frederick Guest, wife of a Britisher and daughter of Millionaire U. S. Senator Phipps of Colorado) and crew. Of the latter, the only well known professional aviator was Wilmer Stultz, who turned back rather than pilot Mrs. Grayson to almost certain mid-Atlantic destruction last autumn, and who has since flown about the Atlantic seaboard with Charles Levine and Mabel Boll. The other two were just the kind of people who would be likely to depart from a yacht club landing when they wanted...
...minutes before noon the Friendship swooped down into Halifax harbor, Nova Scotia. Her crew went to a hotel and early to bed. Miss Earhart refused to tell newsgatherers what kind of powder she used. Up early they were, and again eastward, only to land at Trepassey, Newfoundland, to fix a slight leak in the gasoline tank...