Word: crews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...given command of the Bounty for her ill-fated voyage transporting breadfruit trees from the South Seas to the West Indies. Although Dr. Mackaness roundly insists that Bligh was considerate of his men. quotes heretofore unpublished material to prove it, trouble soon broke out among officers and crew. Bligh's only remedy was a traditional dozen lashes for each offender. Little of the drama of the Bounty's seizure makes its way through Dr. Mackaness' professorial prose. But the great story of Mate Fletcher Christian's attack on his captain, the subsequent travels of Bligh...
...sports which are supervised by coaches during the fall season are football, soccer, cross country, and crew. The rest are on an impromptu basis, but a fall tennis tournament is usually started before the month of October is very well along...
...other fall sports are to begin with football, and trailing that in publicity though not in popularity, come cross country, soccer, tennis, squash, crew, singles sculling, handball, with impromptu touch touch football, and fall baseball filling in the remaining spots. There's also pingpong and pool. Other sports which come up during the remainder of the year are hockey, wrestling, boxing, basketball, fencing, track, lacrosse, baseball, rugby, golf, and polo. This is a variety which is almost sure to offer at least one sport that a Freshman hasn't tried and probably more...
Bert Haines will again coach the applicants for seats in the Freshman crew which isn't finally whipped together until spring time. Bert has seen Varsity crew coaches come and go, and it is prety certain that he'll see more pass in review before he gives up his job. For those who have no weight to give away, the 150-pound crews offer an opportunity. Less exacting than the regular crew practice, is sculling on the river in the dozens of sculls which are housed in the Weld Boat House across the river from the regular crew headquarters (Newell...
...pump commercial entertainment through the 26,000,000 loudspeakers of the land. This opulent wedding of Big Business and Show Business will thus beget a lively brood of ck ,vns and crooners, ingenues and instrumentalists, mimes and maestros who serve as U. S. Industry's most spectacular sales crew. It had taken a summer of wangling and finegling between talent agents, time salesmen, admen and sponsors to line up the 1936-37 radio'season, which by last week manifested the following high spots...