Word: crews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...China coast the U. S. liner President Hoover, with Dollar signs as big as billboards on her funnels, plowed towards Shanghai with 263 U. S. refugees aboard. Out of the sky three small bombs came crashing down on the ship, shell-shocking three passengers, wounding six of the crew, killing one, damaging hull and deck. Shanghai's Mayor 0. K. Yui promptly admitted Chinese responsibility, promised fullest redress: four bombers had mistaken the liner for a Japanese troopship. Washington immediately cabled Ambassador Johnson to make a vehement protest...
Just before the German S.S. Hansa left Hamburg with 993 passengers and 400 crew for her latest Manhattan-bound voyage, seven of the crew developed high fever and nausea and were put ashore. On the high seas 24 more, including kitchen help and dining saloon stewards, took sick with identical symptoms. Twenty-four hours before the Hansa reached New York Harbor the ship's young chief surgeon, Dr. Helmuth Paul Otto Grieshaber was obliged to make up his mind on a point which involved medical ethics, maritime law and business expediency...
...that neither compulsory swimming nor corrective exercise is necessary, and for 95 per cent of the Freshmen they aren't, there are a host of other sports. Leading the list in publicity, if not in popularity, is football. After that comes cross country, soccer, singles sculling, tennis, swimming, squash, crew, with fall track, fall baseball, and impromptu touch football filling in the remaining spots for autumn recreation...
...crew the Freshman coach is Harvey Love who was a cox on one of the famous Washington University crews. When Tom Bolles, Freshman crew coach at Washington was brought here to succeed Charley whiteside, he brought Harvey with him. Together they have revolutionized Harvard rowing and brought it back to the place in the sun which it enjoyed in the days of old (you must have heard of those good old days when Dad was in college.) There is fall practice...
...from Port Washington, few minutes after the German plane had taxied to the ramp, droned the Pan American Clipper, off for England via Bermuda and the Azores. Having crossed the Atlantic by the northern route four times with precision, Captain Harold E. Gray and his pioneering crew were making the first test of the Southern route...