Word: river
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Racing in strong puffy winds in the Charles River, the Varsity sailing team placed second Monday in the greater Boston Dinghy Championships at M.I.T. Boston University led the field of six schools to capture the Oberg Trophy...
...trees and cairns; it is stuffed inside the chortens' hollow towers at crossroads, and revolves constantly in the prayer wheels in every temple, nearly every house. There is gold in Tibet that cannot be mined for fear of offending the gods of earth, though panning gold from the river beds is permitted...
Tibet is cold, filled with silence and bones, haunted by demons; yet Tibetans are a strangely happy people. In the brief two months of summer, they swarm from their dirty, smoke-filled houses, set up white tents with blue trimmings on the river meadows, sing, drink milk beer and tell stories. They splash together in the streams for their first baths of the year. Nearly every visitor to penetrate the forbidden land has been enchanted by its people. They do few things terribly well, but everything with zest. Explorer Fosco Maraini believes they have found the secret of liberty, which...
Under rather poor conditions, the Crimson Varsity lightweight crew retained possession of the Haines Cup as it defeated Cornell on the Charles River Saturday afternoon...
...schedule for the heavyweights begins with the regatta on the Charles River next Saturday. The Compton Cup race on May 2 will also be on the Charles and features M.I.T., and Princeton, with B.U. and Dartmouth as invited guests...