Word: downstream
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last week General Ho Ying-ching, whom President Chiang had sent to defend Canton, found himself so hard pressed that he adopted arriving measures. The first was to send out river workers and peasants to pick up the dead, bloated bodies of soldiers who constantly floated downstream from obscure engagements above. The corpses were searched for cartridges and small arms, General Ho paying a flat rate of $10 for every pistol or hundred cartridges recovered. "Some peasants are making $100 a day," cabled a U. S. eyewitness...
...Here Pearson's shell started to pull away gradually as rougher water was encountered, until it had a length and a half margin over Sturges' crew just beyond the Harvard Bridge. The strokes dropped to 29 and 28 as the water grew more troublesome, and the three boats continued downstream and across the finish line with the Sophomores three lengths ahead of the Junior eight, and Lawrence's Sophomore crew another length in the rear. The winning crew covered the course in 9 minutes, 50 seconds. This crew will row the winning Yale class crew on the Basin Saturday, afternoon...
...allow Tech to enter the Harvard-Cornell race on Saturday, due to the postponement of the races last Saturday, it is expected that Cornell will consent to a triangular regatta since there seems to be no other convenient way to arrange for the Crimson to match up with her downstream rivals...
Ecuador. The gunboat Cleveland had steamed down from Panama to convey the travellers up the shallow estuary to Guayaquil, 40 miles inland. Soon after Saturday's sunup the trip began. Ecuador's cruiser, the Cotopaxi, came proudly downstream to Puna Island with a welcoming committee...
...course avoided the terrors and obscenities of the Pigmy Forest, last week, merely sailing past its extremity in a prim Congo steamer. Near Stanleyville the "Seven Cataracts of the Congo" or "Stanley Falls" halted the royal steamer, and King & Queen were obliged to motor around the Cataracts. Before proceeding downstream to the Atlantic (1,500 miles) King Albert received the homage of several onetime cannibal tribes, two being notorious backsliders. A sprinkling of Pigmies had been drummed up and Their Majesties inspected with interest the cleanest, tamest, least savage. On their way home to Belgium, King Albert and Queen Elizabeth...