Word: lagoons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Swedish confidence in Sweden's fiscal strength was almost back to normal, there was still excitement in the Grand Hotel which faces King Gustav's palace across a small lagoon...
...lagoon which will be built will provide a place where small boats may be used and where skating will be possible in the winter time. Coincident with the completion of the work, boat landings and recreational facilities will be installed...
...methods of making the Charles River Basin more safe, suitable, and attractive for recreation and civic welfare purposes", improvements are now under way for the widening of the Charles River Esplanade, construction of a boat haven and breakwater near the Union Boat Club, and the construction of a lagoon, 1000 feet in length, oposite Exeter and Fairhaven Streets, so that the present park will extend with out a break, from the dam to Cottage Farm Bridge...
...Manus are isolated, unreformed by missionaries, almost uncontaminated by white men. They live in thatched huts set on piles in a lagoon. Children learn to swim, to use a boat, almost before they can walk. For six months Margaret Mead and her husband lived among the Manus, learnt their language, their tabus, took photographs, asked questions, saw as much as they were allowed. Anthropologist Mead's conclusion is that among the Manus only the children have a really good time. Children do exactly as they please; parent's may plead, they never discipline. But with marriage a hard life begins...