Word: bays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Robert Oppenheimer of Bay Shore, Long Island, New York...
Three quarters of a century ago, Boston was acknowledged throughout the country to be the intellectual center of America; Emerson meditated in Concord, and Oliver Wendell Holmes scintillated daily at the breakfast table. It was a period of literary brilliance, and the chilly reaches of the Back Bay were warmed under the sun of national esteem. Of late years, however, Boston has lost much of its quondam glory. Its great ones have departed, and the eiderdown quilt of mediocrity has descended upon its literature and its drama...
...route is: Los Angeles, Seattle, Prince Rupert, (B. C), Sitka (Alaska), ......... Island of Attu, Kashiwabara Bay, Bettobu (Kuriles), Minato Japan (April 17) .......... Shanghai .......... Akyab (Burma), Calcutta (May 28) .......... Bagdad, San Stefnano, Bucharest, Belgrade, Vienna, Strassbourg, Paris, London .......... Kirwall (Orkney Islands) .......... Reykjavik (Iceland), Angmaksalik (Greenland) .......... Indian Harbor (Labrador) .......... Montreal, Keyport, N. J., Washington, Dayton, St. Joseph, Cheyenne, Salt Lake City, Los Angeles...
...longest "hop" will be from the Island of Attu, off the coast of Alaska, to Kashwabara Bay, 860 miles...
...news that the Columbia crews are to practice in secret is exceedingly mystifying; it causes one to suspect some unusual motive--unless indeed the Columbia oarsmen have decided to row frontward a la Chesapeake Bay or to adopt some other equally revolutionary stroke. It has been suggested that this is a result of the all-pervasive influence of Mr. Percy Haughton, who like most sorcerers accomplishes his greatest miracles in an atmosphere of secrecy. But a clue to an even more satisfactory reason is furnished by the news that London's riverside flappers had to be dispersed by the "bobbies...