Word: bays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bay, of the Monitor and Merrimac, of Dewey in Manila Bay. It was President Roosevelt in 1907 when he sent the fleet around the world who first demonstrated that the Navy was a potent organization instead of a few glamorous names, a few precocious children of Fate. The Navy today lacks immortals, but is big with efficiency...
...state with more than a million voters, where the difference between the two candidates will probably be less than 20,000 ballots. Onetime (1914-15) Governor Walsh, Irish-Catholic, Wet, is the most potent vote-getter in the commonwealth. His strength lies in Boston (outside of Back Bay) and in the large mill towns. Senator Butler echoes "Coolidge and Prosperity," and sounds pleasant to wealthy manufacturers, to rock-bound farmers, to red-brick- and-green-shutter folk from the Berkshire Hills to Cape Cod. Senator Butler has been caricatured as beseeching Heaven to send the President and Mrs. Coolidge...
Samuel Dexter on his death in 1810, bequeathed to Harvard University $5,000 to promote "a critical knowledge of the Holy Scriptures." He had been a very well known citizen in this country. He took a leading part in the cause of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay as a member of the Provincial Assembly and later of the Provincial Congress. During the latter part of his long life he devoted himself almost entirely to the study of theology, concerning which subject he held firm and very definite opinions. His funds, the management of which he had inputted to the President...
...Republican parade will start from M. I. T. tonight at approximately the same time as the Harvard march. These simultaneous parades often gave rise to riots in the past when the rival groups neared each other in the Back Bay district. But since the well-known invasion of individual rights, motor policemen have accompanied each procession. Tonight two officers will precede the Harvard columns...
...year 1516 Juan Diaz de Lolis entered the great estuary on the east coast of South America, now known as the River Plate, Sent out by the governor of Castilla del Oro to search for a strait connecting the Atlantic with the newly discovered Pacific, de Lolis ascended the bay then known as the Mar Dulce as far as the mouth of the Parana River whore in 1516 he was killed by Indians...