Word: across
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...bill authorizes the Metropolitan Park Commission or any town, city or other public body so authorized by the Commonwealth, to construct at any time hereafter drawless bridges across the Charles River connecting River street in Cambridge and Cambridge street in Brighton, and at any other points upon the river. The clearances must be at least twelve feet above the ordinary level of water in the basin over the main ship channel. The construction of piers and other obstructions to the flow of the river are to be subject to the approval of the Secretary...
...secure the agreement of the House to the substitution of the Dana bill for the amended McCall bill, which was passed after the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce had reported it. This bill placed the Charles River under the law giving the War Department control over structures built across navigable streams...
...rink and passed over in front of the goal to a scrimmage in which Trimble, the Columbia point, accidentally knocked the puck by Washburn for Harvard's second score. Almost immediately after the face-off Duncan again took the puck down the left side of the ice and passed across to Seamans, who scored. After about ten minutes, in which the play was evenly divided between the two goals, Duncan made the last score of the period on a pass from Pierce...
Coolidge described his journey into East Africa via Nairobi to Kijabe, where he set out across a waterless desert with a train of bullock wagons to the Wandorobo river. This was the only method of crossing this stretch, for the bullocks were able to travel several days without water. Among the game he shot and photographed were lions, leopards, bush cats, cheetahs, ostriches, and rhinos...
Coolidge went into British East Africa last April. He traveled on the railroad as far as Nairobi, where he arranged for an escort of natives. He then took the railway to Kizabe, where he struck out into the wilderness. After leaving Kizabe he traveled with an ox-wagon across a waterless plain, where it was impossible to go with native bearers, as far as the Wandorobo River. Coolidge spent a month in the forest country in the vicinity of the river, where he found an abundance of game. He then returned to the railway, where he was joined by Colby...