Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Edward Balch Barr, who has been recently associated with Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell in exploration and philanthropic work in Labrador, will deliver an illustrated lecture on "Dr. Grenfell and the Deep Sea Mission" in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock. The lecture will be open only to members of the Union...
...illustrated lecture by Mr. Edward Balch Barr on "Dr. Grenfell and the Deep Sea Mission" will be given in the Living Room of the Union tomorrow at 8 o'clock. Mr. Barr has just returned from a six month's trip in Labrador and North Newfoundland, where he worked with Dr. Grenfell. The particular purpose of Mr. Barr's expedition was a search for young caribou to be taken alive in the hope that they might be domesticated and so become of use to the summer, he covered hundreds of miles of seacoast and penetrated far into the interior...
...Edward Balch Barr will give an illustrated lecture on "Dr. Grenfell and the Deep Sea Mission" in the Living Room of the Union next Tuesday at 8 o'clock. Mr. Barr worked under Dr. Grenfell in Labrador and North Newfoundland six months last year and accomplished a great deal in exploring both the sea-coast and interior of the country...
...which were given in the School. He was equally well acquainted with the history of the Common Law and with the most modern decisions, and was familiar with the principles of the Civil Law. Endowed with an extraordinary memory, a constructive legal mind not surpassed by living man, a deep-rooted sense of justice, he would have become a legal writer of great eminence; and he is famous for his short legal treatises in the Harvard Law Review, which he helped to establish. But his main influence on the law was excited by his personality--by opening the minds...
Snow slides are quite like miniature glaciers, being formed by forty or fifty feet of snow drifting info a deep mountain gulch. When the spring rains come, the water percolates through this body, causing the bottom of it to melt away. The immense mass, weighing hundreds of tons, then starts on its swift course down the chasm, tearing everything before it. One picture showed how a slide had cut a straight, narrow path directly through a forest, and in one instance had driven a log completely through a larger tree. The momentum of these slides coming from such a height...