Word: crews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heavy and three lightweight crews lined up across the course at the start and with the word "row". Comstock's boat jumped into a lead which they never relinquished. At the finish Chace's boat was closely pressed by Carwen's with the crew paced by Lawrence following. Behind them Tom Talbot's boat and two lightweight crew came under the wire almost together, while the state-wise paced by Sanger light wells his and the lightweights behind George I've is brought up the rear in that order...
...boat stroked by Spike Chace is expected to lead the procession, but it may have a fight on its hands from some of the other combinations. These crews were chosen by lot last Friday and have been practicing together since then. The aggregation paced by Barr Comstock, dynamic stroke of last year's combination crew, has shown some promise, as had Tom Talbot's boatload, and with nine or more crews lined up abreast on the basin course anything may happen...
There have been some changes in the lineups as announced last week. Bill Row is out with poison Ivy and his place at stroke has been taken by Tom Talbot with Peirce replacing Talbot in Ranger Purdy's crew...
Prompt to support its members, the National Maritime Union gave the crew's story, charged that Captain Gainard had spun a yarn to the .Washington Post's staff correspondent, Edward T. Folliard, who had a frontpage, five-column scoop on the Algic's, horrific trip. Alleging that Correspondent Folliard was inspired by the Maritime Commission, the N. M. U. statement said: "The crew, organized 100% in the N. M. U. conducted itself in the disciplined and orderly fashion that has made the N. M. U. the choice of the overwhelming proportion of the men who go down...
Radiations & Flesh. To guard against injury from radiations in the vicinity of the cyclotron, Dr. Lawrence's crew carry small electroscopes in their pockets which they discharge into a meter at the end of the working day to see how much radiation they have been exposed to. Since neutrons cannot be controlled by magnetic fields and slide easily through almost all substances except those rich in hydrogen, Dr. Lawrence moved the control panel 60 ft. away from the apparatus and surrounded the machine with tanks of water six feet high, three feet thick (every water molecule contains two neutron...