Word: crews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...GREAT LAKES AND HIGH SEAS 355 OF 411,825 PASSENGERS ON AMERICAN MERCHANT VESSELS LOST THEIR LIVES. IN THE SAME YEAR COMMERCIAL AIRPLANES IN THE U. S. A. CARRIED MORE THAN TWICE AS MANY PASSENGERS-746,946 WITH FATALITIES TO 15 PASSENGERS AND AND 14 CREW AND ONE LOST ON GROUND, AN ADVANTAGE OF 22 TO 1 IN FAVOR OF AIRLINE TRAVEL DESPITE THE FALSE IMPRESSION PEOPLE MAY HAVE GAINED FROM TIME'S PLAYING UP OF AIRLINE MISHAPS...
...youngest and ablest Episcopal bishops in the U. S. is Rt. Rev. Henry Wise Hobson, 45, of southern Ohio. A handsome, strapping man (6 ft. 4 in., 200 lb.), he was crew manager and Skull & Bones man at Yale (Class of 1914), won a Distinguished Service Cross for "extraordinary heroism" as a major in the World War, was chosen Bishop Coadjutor of southern Ohio in 1930 after holding an assistant rectorship in Waterbury, Conn., a rectorship in Worcester, Mass. In Cincinnati, his episcopal residence, Bishop Hobson joins in civic movements, collects paintings, holds services in small, old St. Paul...
...honest about the seamy side of the voyage. Financial worries led his grievances, but he stuck to his vow to "make no films, advertise nothing, perform no stunts," letting publisher's royalties from past and future books bear the main expense. Personnel problems were plentiful among his boyish crew, but chief offenders were the finicky U. S. college boys, who were apt to be diligent only about seducing native women. The radio brought a whole world's unwelcome troubles. Of the ship chandlers he bought from, only three around the globe were not robbers. End less red tape...
...their first time trial of the season at a racing beat, the Varsity crew covered the mile and three quarters course in 9:12 on Saturday afternoon. Since the best time made by Harvard last year was 9:10, Saturday's time was considered highly encouraging for so early in the season...
Given a three length handicap, the Varsity passed the Jayvees and beat them to the finish by two lengths with the third and fourth boats about five lengths behind. The fourth crew, stroked by Cedric Francis, nosed out the thirds by half a length, which will mean some shifts in these boats before the final...