Word: crews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boston University, Northeastern, Boston College, and Tufts finished behind the Crimson in that order. Pete Putnam, Frank Scully, and John Gardner skippered the Harvard boats in the round robin, which had each crew sail six times in six different boats...
...were rushed to the lot from a dozen towns. Three giant cranes lumbered through Los Angeles behind police escort. Firemen ran an air hose down the well, began pumping air down by a rotary pump. A little more than an hour after Kathy's fall, a power-drill crew began to sink a shaft alongside the abandoned well. On the other side, big clamshell shovels clawed an open pit for exploration. Fifty floodlights were rushed from Hollywood studios. Volunteer workers-engineers, sandhogs, retired miners, cesspool diggers-rushed to help...
...Crew spectators, this year, will be able to follow the three races on the Charles with their cars as well as their eyes. The Crimson Key Society has announced that it will set up a public address system to broadcast a stroke-by-stroke description of the Adams Cup Compton Cup and inter-Boston triangular meets...
...carted to the extensive wood-working shops below Dunster House on Memorial Drive. Also in this building are a tinsmith's shop, a key shop, a metal-working shop, and an upholstery shop. A staff of roofers (now almost exclusively employed waterproofing Widener), electricians, and plumbers complete the repair crew of Buildings and Grounds...
...process of sifting and shifting to find the right combination will continue. It is something only a crew coach can understand, and even he cannot explain it to the outsider. Bolles describes the task as "something you just see, or feel, or smell," but the job is not quite as nebulous as that. It consists of trying all the possible combinations until you hit upon the one that works best, but even when it happens you never know quite why it should be that...