Word: crews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...historians. Loyalists say one of their air bombs plopped straight down the Espana's funnel. Rebels insist that the Espana struck a floating mine. In any case, up she blew and in 45 minutes sank by the stern to the bottom of the Bay of Biscay. Of her crew, normally 854 officers and men, no were rescued by the Velasco. Fishing boats searched the area for hours, found not a body or a survivor but other things: several German newspapers, the captain's cap, an officer's jacket, the Espana's, logbook. Its last entry...
...concertmaster is to an orchestra what the stroke oar is to a crew. He sits closest to the conductor (coxswain), takes his orders direct, sets an example to the other players. NBC sent for Mischakoff because, when Arturo Toscanini arrives to conduct Radio's proudest symphonic programs, the NBC Orchestra must have a stroke of the calibre to which the old maestro is accustomed...
This Tech crew had previously beaten Princeton, while the Columbia fifties won from Yale in the Blackwell Regatta a week ago, so that on a basis of comparative results Harvard will enter the eight-crew Henley regatta at Princeton a favorite...
...Crimson's Varsity and Jayvee crew have records of victories over Princeton, Tech and Rutgers, Columbia comes with a loss to Yale behind it, and a narrow victory over a very poor Pennsylvania crew...
Like last week, the weakest link in the Harvard chain comes in the 150 pound class, where Bert Haines' first crew tackles a Tech boat it edged last week, a Columbia boat that beat Yale at the same time in New York...