Word: river
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Most spectacular exhibit of the cold wave were westerly winds which whipped the Great Lakes. Toledo, squatting where the Maumee River empties into Lake Erie's western end, was seriously threatened by a water shortage when the wind blew the river water out into the lake in such volume that the river level fell nine and one half feet, within inches of the bottoms of Toledo's pump intakes...
...goer never hears in a hundred visits but also such familiar noises as the rhythmic bleating of sea lions, broken by short, harsh, discordant barks, which sound like a few bars from Ravel's Valse. More sophisticated listeners preferred the grotesque beauty of the West African red river hog's grunt, the resonant, whuffing snort of the white-tailed gnu, the whistling whinny of the panda...
Stock vaudeville gag for 25 years because of its funny Indian name, the little city of Kankakee, Ill. (pop. 20,000) was the hometown of the late Pen-&-Inkman Frank D. Waterman, the late Sculptor George Grey Barnard, Cinemactor Fred MacMurray. Purring contentedly in a crook in the Kankakee River 56 miles south of Chicago, it is proud of its humming industries (overalls, silk stockings, furniture, farm implements), is famed for its huge State insane asylum. Last week Kankakee purred so loudly that the whole nation heard...
Crusader. Oscar Riddle was born in Cincinnati, Ind., got his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago, after returning from a natural history expedition to South America's Orinoco River, was well on the way to becoming an ichthyologist when a lecture on evolution gave a new turn to his career. He went to the Carnegie Institution's station at Cold Spring Harbor in 1912 as a research associate, and, except for a Wartime sojourn in France, has stayed there ever since...
...will go to Laconia, Plymouth, Waterville Valley (leave bus at West Campton Post Office on going trip and entrain at Campton railroad station on return trip), North Woodstock, Lincoln, Lisbon, Littleton, White River Junction (Tamworth, Wonalancet, Chocorus), Conway, North Conway, Intervale (Jackson, Bartlett, Glen, Pinkham Notch...