Word: river
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doubt the crew member feels something akin to the skier's togetherness, knowing that he is huddled in the warm confines of the boathouse, that so long as the Charles flows there will always be a Harvard crew, and that when the shells again take to the river next spring, people will stand on the banks in the sunlight and cheer...
Also chosen were John B. Jones, of Pennypacker Hall and Wilmette, Ill.; Oscar Y. Lewis, Jr., of Massachusetts Hall and Fall River; Tom R. Wardell, of Matthews Hall and Billings, Mont.; and Phillip N. Winslow, of Thayer Hall and Cambridge...
Engineer John Luther ("Casey") Jones highballed the Illinois Central's Cannonball No. 1 out of Memphis an hour and 35 minutes late. His throttle hand urged the Cannonball south along Mississippi's Big Black River at 75 m.p.h. while Casey exulted in its power. "Sim," he shouted to his fireman, "the old lady's got her high-heeled slippers on tonight." Minutes later he saw the freight cars parked on the track ahead. "Jump, Sim," cried Casey, "and save yourself." Fireman Simeon Webb jumped and lived. But Casey Jones, on the night of April 30, 1900, roared...
...Ferry. Still, Harold was willing. He was 23 and had been looking for a good break in the music business ever since his daddy, who piloted a Mississippi River ferry out of Helena, Ark., taught him how to play the guitar. Some records he had out were bombs, so he was happy to let Agent Seat call the shots, even if it meant a handle like Twitty...
...ceremonial "tomb" of Diana. Last June the overturned but well-preserved columns of the temple itself came to light. This month the diggers unearthed a magnificent stoa (portico) which can easily be restored. Many of the carved stones were in remarkably good condition because the floods of the River Erissinos (now dry) had covered them with silt...