Word: bays
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...large Mill Pond near what is now the North End. To replace the water power (used for turning the city's grist mills) produced by the dam around the Mill Pond, the Legislature approved in 1819 a new dam stretching from what is now Brighton across the Back Bay to the Boston Common...
...tide, as the crowded Bostonians looked across the Bay, newly bounded by dam they probably could not help but envision dry, rent-producing land. The smell of the mudflats was even more compelling. In 1849 the Boston Board of Health declared that the Back Bay was positively unsanitary. A group called the Commissioners on the Back Bay was formed by a Commonwealth commission to study the area. They suggested that it be filled in. They produced a hand-some design for the new land, calling for four broad avenues intersected by smaller cross streets, but the state appropriated no money...
...weak organization-only last week did workmen finish installing telephones in his Milwaukee headquarters-Carter must depend on the bandwagon effect of his previous victories. Last week, in his first appearance in the state this year, Carter drew large, enthusiastic crowds at stops in Milwaukee, Madison and Green Bay...
...crab capital of America. Warner is equally appreciative of his friends' boats, those eccentric skipjacks, scrapers, draketails and Jenkins Creekers found only on Chesapeake Bay...
...naturalist recognizes that the bay, its crabs and its watermen's way of life are endangered species. Warner does not attempt to change the situation by preaching. His text performs a far better service. In its unsentimental way, it evokes Shakespeare's phrase: "One touch of nature makes the whole world kin." Callinectes sapidus and Homo sapiens may seem a world apart. Beautiful Swimmers shows how minuscule that world is-and how interrelated its in habitants have become...