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Supplanting the pick-up crew races usually held in the fall among Harvard's oarsmen, the Crimson Varsity eight will take the water against Dartmouth, B. U., and probably Tech, on the Charles to race the Henley distance on October...
...folk phrase of suburb and village was: "We keep ourselves to ourselves," and there were few who violated it by smiling at strangers. In the turmoil of common danger and common deprivation, that folkway died. A pick-up date is now almost respectable...
...wave headquarters, sit a pair of dark-haired, olive-skinned announcers, their eyes on the red second hands of electric clocks. At the same moment, both begin to speak, one in Portuguese, the other in Spanish. Engineers throw two switches, send the Portuguese commentary splashing out over WCBX for pick-up in Brazil, the Spanish commentary over WCRC and WCDA for rebroadcast in the other Latin countries south of the border. La Cadena de las Americas (The Network of the Americas...
...blocks neatly halved a railroad rail. A homemade mine (an old cartridge box, batteries, scrap iron, wire, string, 6½lb. of TNT) tore the guns from an old World War I tank. A hand grenade and booby trap were manufactured on the spot from the same pick-up materials...
With this idea, Du Pont formed A.A.A. and in May 1939 landed the first Post Office contract for pick-up airmail service. He has been snagging pouches ever since. His A.A.A. has flown more than 900,000 revenue miles, completed 91.6% of its schedules, had only one minor mishap (a plane nosed over in a snow-covered field). He serves towns as small as Glenville, West Va., pop. 588, as large as Wilmington...