Word: fog
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since channel swimming become a practically unknown sport, after it was learned that all one needed was a heavy blanket of fog and a strong oarsman, the spotlight of publicity for not doing things has shifted to aviation. "Our Ruth", as we never call her, proved that all one needed was to come down beside a big merchantman, be picked up in the orthodox way, taken to port, and live thereafter in a Paradise of dotted lines...
Perhaps the most pleasant memory of all is of that last stretch home from Iffley to the barge in January. Returning late from a long journey we find all deserted and quiet. From the river rises the evening fog clothing in mystery the willows on the banks. Only the rhythmical click of the oars in the row-locks breaks the silence. Eight-blades swing regularly together and softly dip. Everyone is conscious of the music fundamental to rowing
From S-D-A, large letters on the cockpit and from the watch, the flyers were known to be Count de Lesseps and his mechanic. They had flown away to gather data for map-making for the forestry service. There had been fog. Both had had life preservers...
...hydrophone is one of the most important instruments in modern navigation," Lieutenant G. B. Myers, one of the naval officers stationed at the Engineering School told a CRIMSON reporter. "Electric beacons are being used now where formerly light houses and bells were the only guides at dangerous points. Fog and rough weather make the older methods unreliable or utterly useless, while the electric vibrations transmitted through the sea, and registered by the hydrophone, are not so seriously affected by conditions of the weather. The depth of water under a ship at any time can be instantly determined by electric means...
Tomorrow will be Friday morning at Dartmouth, Friday before the Harvard game. The early morning fog rolls off the campus and the sun warms the crisp, clear air. Dartmouth in all her autumn beauty reveals herself. The age old hills in the background sparkle in the early morning sunshine. The trees with leaves in every color of the rainbow give her a festive dress. the whitewashed front of "Dartmouth Row" stands as a symbol of the old Dartmouth. The new library, the new Biology building and the new dormitory, half-finished, bear tangible evidence of the growth...