Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dirigible was about a dozen miles off Point Sur when something went suddenly, inexplicably wrong in her stern. A jar-a lurch-and the operator of the elevators in the control car felt the wheel jerked out of his hands. Wallowing like a wounded whale, the Macon rolled over on her side, stuck her nose into the air, started to climb. The lookout atop the great bag telephoned the control car that a rib had snapped in the framework, that No.1 gas cell near the fin had ripped open. Steady as a stone, Commander Wiley ordered gas valved from...
Thanks to Radioman Dailey, warships were swarming to the rescue before the Macon's stern touched water. Out of the dirigible's lockers had been yanked collapsible rubber life rafts which, when a valve is opened, inflate with carbon dioxide. These were tossed overside. After the crash, the crew slid down lines from the upturned bow into the sea, swam to the life rafts. Last to leave the control car was Commander Wiley and a young lieutenant who banged his head getting away. Badly stunned, he would probably have gone down if his captain had not seized...
Harvard 2. Dartmouth 1. Basketball SAGE LOWELL Sprang, r.f. l.f., Bates Rene, l.f. r.f., Stern Dunbar, c. c., Illoway Cooley, r.g. l.g., Drimmer Smith, l.g. r.g., Walsh...
Substitutions: Sage: Smith, Mayer. Lowell: Abel, Adlis, Culver, Stern...
...Lowell House basketball players are: Bates, S.W. Stern, Illoway, Drimmer, Walsh, Abel, Adlis, Culver, M. Stern...