Word: river
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sarajevo nestles between the hills in the valley of the Miljachka River. Its main thoroughfare, the Appel Quay, follows the river bank. The domes and minarets of Sarajevo's 100 mosques gleamed white in the rain-washed air as the procession started up the quay toward the Town Hall...
...Close Yangtze River to navigation...
...smart little newspaperman named Julius David Stern, who was almost unknown outside of Camden, N. J., crossed the Delaware River to Philadelphia and with some of the money he had made from his Camden Post and Courier bought the doddering Philadelphia Record from John Wanamaker. At that time the third largest U. S. city had five listless, uncompetitive and politically hogtied papers. No good newspaperman considered Philadelphia worth a stop between Baltimore and Manhattan...
...University of California's varsity oarsmen: the Intercollegiate Rowing Association Regatta, No. 1 U. S. crew race; rowing the four miles in 18 min., 12.6 sec., a new course record; on the choppy Hudson River, off Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Second-place Washington, finishing 1.5 sec. behind, also broke the old record...
...passions and furies of the late Thomas Wolfe made him seem like some frenzied Wagnerian hero condemned to live in a nursery. In his autobiographical Look Homeward, Angel and Of Time and the River, he recorded only the emotions of his childhood and adolescence, the first intellectual awakenings of his young manhood. What passions, readers asked themselves, what intensities of brooding, pain and rhetoric would Thomas Wolfe show himself evincing in his first serious love affair? The possibilities were slightly awesome to contemplate...