Word: crews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harry Thompson bought himself a Navy yeoman's uniform, went to work. Posing as a visitor from another crew, he would board warships at the San Pedro and San Diego bases. With the disarming air of an ambitious country boy he would then ask eager questions about gunnery data, technical innovations, maneuvers. He frequently managed to slip off by himself, filch code books, signal books, photographs, blueprints, plans, maps, models. He made friends easily, often took gunners and technicians out on parties. What he learned found its way to Toshio Miyazaki, who returned regular payments from his large account...
...Poughkeepsie. Washington or California almost always has the best college crew in the U. S. They have to go East to prove it. Last week, after Washington's junior varsity and freshmen had beaten the East's best, seven varsities pulled out on the calm Hudson to row four miles down stream. Of the Eastern crews-Columbia, Cornell, Navy, Penn and Syracuse-Cornell, heaviest in the race, looked best, but the two Westerners were favorites. In their own regatta, at Seattle last April, Washington had beaten California by three lengths but that was at three miles. California...
...craft, port authorities sent U. S. Pilot Art Williams, in Guiana after an air search for Paul Redfern, to fly over her. When Williams reported she was indeed the Girl Pat, a police launch set out to arrest her. As it drew alongside, the Girl Pat's doughty crew of four appeared at the rail stripped for a fight. Shouted Captain George Black Osborne: "We're outside the three-mile limit. Get out or we'll sink...
Stroke Thomas Judge of Manhattan College's crew reluctantly admitted to that the coxswain of the Rollins College crew that beat Manhattan last fortnight was a girl - Sally Stearns, 110-lb. brunette from Peterboro, N. H. "Gee," he said, "you'd never have guessed it to look...
...Harry Stone, her onetime mate, who was left behind in the Dakar Hospital. Said he: "When we left Grimsby, it was to fish. But Skipper Osborne had plans of his own. He was going to sell the boat in some foreign port and divide the proceeds with the crew. . . . We had no charts-only a child's atlas we'd bought at Woolworth's. . . . I was ill. In Dakar . . . they had to leave me behind. I can't say I'm sorry...