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Word: river (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rowe and Stern will be stationed about 1200 miles north of Boston, Rowe at Northwest River and Stern further east at Cartwright...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brooks House Grenfell Mission Group Selects Two for Labrador Trip | 5/5/1939 | See Source »

...logical thing is to reduce rents. This could be most easily done by the University's building of a housing settlement for instructors on the vacant land across the river next to the Business School. At present this land is lying idle; at the same time the University is complaining that it cannot get a large enough return on its investments. If it were to build such a project and to charge rents low enough to minimize the cost to the instructor of educating his children, even were the land not to be tax-free, the University still would...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NO ROOMS FOR RENT | 5/5/1939 | See Source »

This Sunday the Crimson skippers will meet Brown in a regatta at Providence, and on Sunday, May 14, they will view for the Boston Dinghy Cup with 25 eastern colleges. This regatta will be held on the Charles River near M.I.T...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YACHT CLUB PLANS REGATTAS | 5/5/1939 | See Source »

...murder, was a success on the stage and screen (it started Charles Laughton on his career), but did not sell well as a book. The Gun, an adventure story of the Peninsular War, and The African Queen, a story of a virgin and a Cockney on an African river, won him critical success among adventure connoisseurs, but sold only moderately. His best book, The General, a subtle attack on stuffed-shirt generals, sold 1,935 copies in the U. S. By Teutonic mistake, Author Forester's fame is particularly bright in Germany, where The General is still widely regarded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Adventure Classic | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

Only 179 points went to the Harvard Yacht Club in its attempt to capture the Morse Challenge Cup, from M. I. T., who checked up a score of 242 in the annual regatta held on the Charles River Basin over the week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Sailors Place Fourth In Morse Challenge Event | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

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