Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Columbus O'Donell Iselin '26, is now on its way to the waters off Bermuda. Iselin is leading an expedition to collect for the Museum of Comparative Zoology specimens of the flora and fauna of the middle Atlantic and to make a special study of the currents of the Gulf Stream...
After two weeks spent about the Bermuda group, and two weeks in the Gulf Stream itself the party will spend the remainder of the summer studying that part of the Atlantic lying between the Gulf Stream and the eastern shore of the United States. A careful study will he made of this body of water, whose temperature is considerably lower than that of the Gulf Stream itself...
...flood was, indeed, in its last stages?no grand finale but a slow seeping into the Gulf of Mexico. A comparatively small area in the extreme southern portion of the Atchafalaya River basin?was still experiencing tense moments, but no major levees had "gone out" and even in northern Louisiana the waters were falling...
...with Byron and Leander. And the dourest male skepticism will be disarmed by our hero's frank confessions that he took a taxi over the last seven miles of his race from Marathon to Athens in the very tracks of Pheidippides; that diving for sponges in the Gulf of Gabes gave him an earache...
...biplane, Lieutenants C. A. Carr and Lem M. S. Gillman hopped last week from Cranwell, England, bound for Karachi, India, 4,000 miles away. They missed the airdrome wall at the start by a few inches. Over Constantinople they were reported to be doing well. On leaving the Persian Gulf engine trouble developed. They were forced to descend into lukewarm waters, wrecking their Hawker-Horsley some 3,200 miles from home. Soon a ship rescued them, took them to Abadan, Persia...