Word: engineroom
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Still, it will be an incredibly trying job to select 14 men out of 57, a fact that is not lost on Parker. Among the hopefuls, he'll have the engineroom from nearly every major college eight, with the exception of Brown. Navy's Chuck Munns, Dave Murray and John Kiser, who rowed in last year's Eastern championship boat, will be there, as will Calvin Coffey, Bill Backman and Pete Karassik from the Northeastern boat that won the Sprint title a month ago. The majority of the Washington varsity that roared through an unbeaten Spring only to fall meekly...
...Minutes later his ship was on her way. Soon after, the Communists guns opened up and Kerans felt a shell whoosh past his neck, but the Amethyst was untouched. Then she began to flood from a waterline shell hole suffered in the first day's attack. In the engineroom the depleted crew of eleven worked at temperatures up to 170 degrees, drank ten gallons of tea during the frantic run. In the chart-room, two men tried to pick out the channel with an echo sounder. One thing was sure: the Amethyst had to hit the narrow opening...
...little vessel ran into a hammering storm. She was only 97 ft. long, with a beam of 22 ft. and a draught of 6 ft. 4 in. U. S. inspectors had approved her only for harbor hauls. When Captain Louis Hough, a white man, saw water in the engineroom, he decided to run for shelter behind Delaware Breakwater. Emanuel Valverde, his wife and Willie went below while the Captain vainly tried to get up a sea-bucking head of steam...
...that while visiting in San Antonio, Tex., he obtained from an anonymous chance acquaintance a diary purporting to be written by one of four German hirelings who dynamited the Cyclops on the high seas. Excerpts from the diary told how charges had been set in the ship's engineroom, how the diarist and one accomplice had escaped in a small boat and were rescued by a German vessel, how the fugitives and German crew meticulously destroyed all traces of the Cyclops after the explosion...
...staid recorders of fires, parades, baby-shows and ship launchings, newsreel photographers are now famed for the risks they take. Three weeks before his death, Newsreeler Traub went down in the submarine 54. In a bathing suit, with water up to his neck, with his camera mounted near the engineroom ceiling, he photographed the crew escaping one by one with "artificial lungs" (TIME Feb. 18). The device was a success, but not for Traub. He stayed where he was until the U. S. S. Mallard on the surface pumped the submarine full of air at high pressure, bringing...