Word: river
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Crimson oarsmen today swing into their first competitive action of the year with prospects for a clean sweep as the Varsity, Freshmen, and Jayvees meeting M. I. T., Rutgers, and B. U. on the Charles. Bert Haines' 150's race a similar crew from the down river Institute...
After a hectle final week of time trials and gruelling practices in drenching rain, Coach Harvey M. Love has finally found what he believes to be the winning combination for the 1942 heavyweight crew. The season will open in a regatta with M.I.T. Saturday afternoon over the Charles River Basin Henloy Course...
...drainage plant will soon look like a village of criss-crossed highways, farm buildings, fields and forests. Easiest to camouflage, says Mr. Stafford, is a flat-roofed building in wooded countryside, over which a continuation of the woods may be painted; hardest is a tall building by a river, especially one with a big smokestack. Impossible to make look like something else are the Gothic-towered Houses of Parliament...
...Omaha, Fall River, Birmingham, Toledo, Detroit, Houston, Seattle, Denver, Portland, Dallas...
Omaha. On the afternoon of August 13, 1859, a railroad lawyer stood on a bluff over the Missouri River and decided that lots in a little village on the other side were safe investments. The lawyer was Abraham Lincoln; the village, Omaha, Neb. Railroads and stockyards made it great; in 1887 real-estate transfers amounted to $31,000,000. It was also corrupt: by 1911 the income of 370 houses of prostitution amounted to $17,760,000 annually. Now the brilliantly lighted "Arcade," that in 1907 housed 300 girls, is closed. In the back room of the Budweiser Saloon...