Word: bay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hotel Savard, in snowy Murray Bay (La Malbaie, the French-Canadians call it) became jammed with men & women; two slept in a bed and cots filled up the dinky corridors, just as though a notorious murderer were to be tried. Sleighs were requisitioned, as recklessly as planes. More men, more money, were poured into the northland. ... In New York, hawkers sold flags and buttons, carpenters started building grandstands...
Since the disappearance of the new launch "Red Top" in the Cape Cod Bay it has been decided to order another speed launch to take the place of the ill-fated craft intended for the use of Coach E. J. Brown '96, head coach of the Harvard University crew squad...
...their pea-green boat there was room for only three. And so Upton Sinclair was left on the beach while the Great Emancipators set forth for New York or heaven. Boston is near the shore, though, and soon the first literary travelling man found himself in the old Back Bay Station. Ever since the porter dropped his luggage in Copley Square, ever since the moment when the man's eyes flooded as he said: "Home, thank God" there has been a Bostonian flavor, even occasionally a Cantabrigian tang to his work. It is through granite one drills to reach...
...January in Havana to present an Equal Rights Treaty. This was the result, gratifying to herself and colleagues. Said she: "A step of great significance . . . challenge to law makers the world over." She outlined the scope of a new super-suffrage for women of the Western Hemisphere, from Hudson Bay to Tierra del Fuego...
...other water is an enormous shallow bay, spread like a thin shield across the North of Canada. Into this grey harbor also Hudson sailed; and here, after spending a winter on its frozen shore, he stayed to watch his ship, manned by a mutiny, putting back for England, leaving him and two companions to drown or freeze or starve. It is idle and unpleasant to imagine how the tireless captain accomplished death; it is possible, though, to imagine him as he must have looked, sitting in a small boat, listening to the slap of water on its gunwale, watching...