Word: crews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Swinging deck chairs, clubs, anything they could lay their hands to, the Bremen's stout Nazi crew went to work. As the fight spread, some of the women pulled out handcuffs, fastened themselves to the railing, screamed imprecations against Realmleader Hitler. Reported Editor Thomas Davin of Robert M. McBride & Co., publishers: "As we crossed over the deck, we saw a woman handcuffed to the rail. . . . The officer was striking her with what appeared to be a blackjack. ... As he hit her she ducked around. Then another fellow caught her. He held her head still with one hand over...
...cold mist at Grunau, Washington University's eight-oared crew won the gold medal by half a length over Italy and Germany in a breath-taking finish. In Berlin German gymnasts swung, spun and rolled up the impressive winning total of 657,936 points. While the International Basketball Federation, meeting to see what could be done about making the game satisfactory for the 1940 Olympics at Tokyo, vetoed a proposal to limit the height of basketball players to 5 ft. 8 in., agreed on 6 ft. 3 in., the U. S. won the Olympic title, 19-t08 against Canada...
...three hours before the shattered City of Memphis was found. Then ground crew stumbled on an isolated clearing on the Behlmann farm, found 400-ft. swath through the corn strewn with the wreckage of the $50,000 all-metal plane. Scattered among the debris were the bodies of the eight victims, all killed instantly. The pilot's watch had stopped...
...freighter Firby, bound for England with six passengers, a cargo of wheat, flour, timber. The first ship to clear Churchill this year, the Firby was also the first to carry passengers to Europe under an organized booking service. In the past, passengers have occasionally been taken, usually listed as crew. The new arrangement is the latest Canadian effort to make a paying proposition out of Churchill, which was developed as a port five years ago at tremendous cost, has so far proved a failure...
...first modern revival of the Olympic Games in 1896, a little crew of casually assembled athletes foundered through a helter-skelter track meet at Athens. In the four decades since, the modern Olympic Games have become what their founder, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, hoped that they might one day be and what the ancient Olympic Games actually were: World's No. i sports event...