Word: crews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hundred one crew candidates tramped through the snow to Nowell Boathouse last night to hear stern words from Coach Tom Bolles. "Every rowing college in the country is out to beat us. We can make any college's season a success by losing to them," he said...
...lives in handsomely remodeled, fluorescent-lighted quarters off St. James's. The apartment building is 70 years old and has, says Crowther, a dubious past: "I find that the older generation of taxi drivers know the address [22 Ryder Street] very well." It now houses a brilliant crew, and a tradition of passionate anonymity: only a departing editor's valedictory may bear a byline. Although it has a reputation for omniscience, the Economist takes pains to tell its readers every so often that it doesn't know...
Organized crow had come a long way since the '50's, when the men would take the shell down the Charles to Boston every night in order to got drunk. It was through the magenta handkerchiefs the crew were around their heads that Harvard got its color and the new journal its name...
...Galas That was in June, 1886. The Yale races were only two weeks away, and all was bustle and interesting activity in and around the Harvard "quarters." A favorite pastime consisted in riding along the banks of the River Thames in order to catch the "time" of the Yale crews during their near at hand. Your correspondent was much at home in these "diggin's and doings" (every time I get a good start to write, I'm summoned by a nurse to be X-rayed, to have a needle injected into my arm, or to have my leg pulled...
...Sudan, whose sandy hair is thinning now, tells about the February day he drove through the snow until even his Model-T stuck, then walked ten miles to a rancher dying of pneumonia. On the way he lost his fountain pen. The next spring a road crew brought him the pen and explained: "This must be yours, Doc. Nobody else would have been up in that Williams Fork country in the winter...