Word: bay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...things out of his desk at the Capitol in Washington, he proceeded to Providence, R. I., to stay with his darkly handsome daughter, Mrs. Leona Curtis Knight. Mrs. Knight's father-in-law, C. Prescott Knight, took the Nominee out on his yacht to watch sailing races in Narragansett Bay...
...must go to Ascot every year. From Windsor with his good wife and the Prince of Wales he drove through the rain in a landau drawn by six perfectly matched greys mounted by postillions in scarlet coats frogged with gold. He saw Lord Derby's Toboggan, a nice bay filly, win the $25,000 Coronation Stakes while his own horse, Scuttle, came in third; he saw Brown Jack win the Royal Ascot Stakes by three lengths from Bonny Boy II, and he saw Maid of Perth win the Golden Vase that has his name...
...across the most populous and highly developed midsection of Nippon, Japan's main island. In the territory are Tokyo (population 2,000,000) where the imperial government sits, Yokohama the seaport, and a great hinterland of rice fields, silkworm farms and river industries. Along Tokyo bay are shipyards, steel & iron foundries, factories for making textiles, paper, chemicals, machinery, pottery, cement, rayon. What coal those plants can get in Japan is of poor grade; what coal they can get by import is expensive. So they turn for power to electricity. And the Tokyo Electric Light Co. supplies it. No wonder...
...York's Pelham Bay 1,756 acres...
...frail wind moved under dark skies, ruffling the water of Oyster Bay, L. I., and filling the sails of some six-metre boats owned by rich men. Slowly the little fleet beat toward a buoy close to a sandy bluff, rounded the buoy, sailed back to the Seawanhaka Club where at sunset a cannon went off. The two boats in the lead-the Lanai, owned by Harry L. Maxwell, and the Saleema, owned by H. B. Plant-were picked to compete in the six-metre races to be held in European waters this summer...