Word: crews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wheel of the trim little schooner Sewanna, the best yachtsman the nation ever had for President put out from Pulpit Harbor, Me. early last week with Sons James, John and Franklin Jr. for shipmates, a crew of two. "I haven't the faintest idea where I'm going, except to work to the east'ard," he told newshawks before casting off. "I'm just going to loaf and have a good time...
...Rollins is proud of Sally Stearns (TIME, June 22), who coxswained our varsity crew when it beat Manhattan College on the Harlem. The first girl coxswain that ever steered an intercollegiate race won her "R" by sheer merit and not by way of a publicity stunt. For three years she never missed a clay at the crew house, substituting for male coxswains whenever they didn't show up. Last year she was the best coxswain available, but the coach and Athletic Committee feared ridicule from "turned-up-nosed" males if she was permitted to participate in what had always...
...Brown made a preliminary test of his equipment. He put on woolen basketball socks, sneakers, short hockey pants. He ate a huge breakfast of hot cakes and bacon. Then he got into a rubberized suit, hung a gas mask on his chest, a radio transmitter on his back. His crew lowered him and boat through a manhole into a sewer main, paid out 500-ft. of flexible steel cable attached to the stern of the punt. Thus insured against immediate catastrophe, Mr. Brown sculled into the hot and humid black stink. Two hours later he was hoisted...
Superintendent Jones promptly mustered another crew of company miners for another purpose. On North Mountain they went from one bootleg coal hole to another, grimly dynamited every one. Before Enoch Kuklinskie died of a broken back that evening Stevens Coal Co.'s Shamokin properties were sealed against illegal entry for a long time...
...Gloucester, Mass. for a summer cruise to the Azores and around Cape Horn sailed the 90-ft, schooner Wander Bird, with a professional captain, a crew of 13 schoolboys, including 16-year-old John Morgan, grandson of Banker J. P. Morgan...