Word: cayuga
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Crimson eights will leave for Ithaca on Thursday and have several workouts on Cayuga's waters before the races saturday afternoon. Lake Cayuga is apt to be windy and rough, so the Harvard oansmen should feel at home...
...TIME, Aug. 9, p. 9, a footnote refers to Cayuga County as follows...
...interested in this, for I have been a resident of Cayuga County all my life and I recall very vividly the interest which Dugdale's book aroused when published in 1884. I have never heard this county spoken of as the home of the Jukes, and I have looked in vain through my copy of the book for a verification of your statement; so I should like very much to know your authority...
...dances, lovers' lanes, roadhouses, increasing illegitimacy. And I have a daughter 16 years old." Illinoisans were amused, amazed, intrigued. "Boss" Brennan had jumped from the back room to the stump. What was he doing running for public office? All his life he had avoided it. Born in Cayuga County,* New York, in 1865, he earned his first dollar in a coal mine in Braidwood, 111. Miners probably decided that George Brennan would make a success of life when he lost a leg. A switchman was absent on a post-payday drunk. George, substituting, tried to uncouple two cars...
Scorpions crawled on the bosom of Lake Cayuga one afternoon last week - the red-and-white-footed scorpion of Cornell and the blue-and-gold of California. For nearly three miles they crawled evenly, staccato voices in their tails urging their legs to greater labor. Then open water began to show. There was a scorpion's length of it between the two when Cornell-her eight gigantic hearties bursting from a last effort which her slightly lighter California guests could not match-shot across the line, winner of a crew race that promised brave things for Cornell later...