Word: inlets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alaskan" peninsula begins between the 59th and 60th degrees of North Latitude and extends in a southwesterly direction to Unimak Pass, where the Aleutian Islands begin. Anchorage is at the head of Cook Inlet and is more than 120 miles northeast of where the Alaska peninsula begins; while Nome is situate on the south coast of Seward peninsula, many hundred miles from the Alaska peninsula. Anchorage is north of the 61st parallel of North Latitude and Nome is north of the 64th parallel. If you referred to the great body of land between Cook Inlet and Norton Sound...
...Firth of Forth is a dour, great inlet where the tide rushes in and out from the North Sea at great velocity and where the sixth longest bridge in the world supplies "see-ers" with a "sight." Britain's battle fleet uses it as a base. Scotsmen, particularly Edinburghers who dwell near its troubled expanse, boast of its majesty and dangers. But few think of swimming across it; and none of those who have tried have ever succeeded-until last week. Then W. E. Barnie, an Edinburgh science teacher, girded up his loins, plunged in at Burntisland...
...Government was pursuing an intensive search for them. The President said: "Every effort the Government can make is being made to find these gallant men." Two U. S. Coast Guard cutters ploughed the gale-lashed waters of the North Pacific day and night. At every bay and inlet a small boat was put off and a search was made of the adjoining land. At night the two ships' glaring searchlights swept the desolate coast...
ITHACA, N. Y., March 23. The last ice that blocked the inlet adjoining Lake Cayuga broke up this morning, allowing the Cornell crews to practice on open water for the first time this season. Cornell is two weeks late getting on the water as compared with last year, but Coach Hoyle hopes to overcome this handicap by hard work in the next few weeks...
...shells had shipped a substantial amount of water, while the condition of the lake made it plain that all rowing was out of the question. It had originally been planned, in case of rough water, to send the boats over the mile and three quarters course in the inlet near the boathouse, but by the time the Lake course was definitely found to be unnavigable, darkness had already fallen and the race was called...