Word: bays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...except those in the Business School, who are confined to their rooms by illness may send word to the Medical Adviser's office, Wadsworth House, or telephone University 7600 between 8.30 and 5.30 o'clock. After 5.30 o'clock and also on Saturday afternoons, Sundays and Holidays, telephone Back Bay 10100 for Dr. P. H. Means, University 10720 for Dr. M. H. Bailey, or University 7047, Stillman Infirmary...
...tired, then attended the races for relaxation; where even a mere key lying three miles off the mainland was bought up by men like Carl Fisher (Prestolite) and Harvey Firestone (Akron tireman), transformed into a palmettoed Eden connected with Miami proper by a $1,000,000 causeway over Biscayne Bay. People of the "Magic City" boasted that its indolent sun-kissed shores had never been touched by a hurricane; that Miami was, in fact, well outside the "hurricane belt...
...screaming, slashing demoniacal 130-mile gale raged wilfully, lustily, triumphantly. The barometer was 27.75 (lowest ever recorded in the U. S.). Pelicans, gulls, petrels, royal terns swept in helplessly, crazily, were dashed against walls into broken lumps. The waters of the ocean on one side and of the Bay of Biscayne on the other swept over Bayshore Drive, met. People drowned like trapped puppies to the frivolous dirge of tinkling glass...
...General, himself more than half a Yaqui, was en route from Hermosillo, capital of the State of Sonora, to Cajeme, his ranch stronghold. Prudent, he had obtained from Governor Alejo Bay of Sonora a guard of 150 soldiers for his private* train...
Early one morning last week a fishing smack trailed by a rowboat -routine indications of a channel swimmer-appeared in St. Margaret's Bay, England. As they crept toward shore a little Frenchman, perhaps the swimmer's trainer, was seen gesticulating in the bow of the rowboat. He seemed afraid that his aspirant would fail in the last 200 yards and kept shouting, "Think of your mother. Think of your father. Think of your wife." The man in the water, who was thinking of a double whisky, swam sturdily...