Word: crews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eighty Yardling oarsmen last night listened to Harvey Love, Freshman crew coach, emphasize the need for training. At the same meeting, which was held at seven o'clock in the Upper Common Room of the Union, Tom Bolles, Varsity crew coach, expressed his hope that the Harvard crew would make the 1940 Olympics...
...Under better physiological conditions, with a simplified cockpit and an enlarged crew, there would be greater safety, fewer pilot errors, fewer crashes, less loss of life and equipment and great revenue from a more confident public. There would be a less rapid turnover of pilots and a longer useful service, and they would live a longer and more healthful life...
...Rutherford Hayes's Administration to persuade the U. S. Navy to back the terrible attempt of the Herald to find the North Pole. But on July 8, 1879. a crude, unwieldy little naval vessel called the Jeannette sailed slowly out of San Francisco, carrying scientific equipment, a crew of 31, including two Herald correspondents, headed for the Polar Seas and sure disaster...
Loading their three boats (weighing four tons) on sledges, and carrying three and a half tons of food, the crew started over the ice, with Siberia 500 miles south of them. In eight days they traveled five and a half miles. But the ice had moved beneath them: they were 25 miles north of where they started. Three months later a few of the survivors, some blind, some mad, one so badly frozen his feet had fallen off, landed on the coast of Siberia where the Lena River pours into the Arctic. Of a party of 14 men, including Commander...
...Congressional committees investigated the Jeannette'?, fate, parts of Commander De Long's journal were published, but what happened in the two years in the ice pack remained a mystery. Piecing the story together from these documents and unpublished writings of other members of the crew, Commander Ellsberg (On the Bottom) has tried to make its terrors more oppressive by the device of having it told by Chief Engineer Melville as a first-hand observer. Not altogether successful, the device enables Commander Ellsberg to put hackneyed remarks in the mouths of the characters that rob the book of authority...