Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chief effects of the final changes were two: 1) to limit the life of the new Flood Control Board, by referring to the Mississippi River Commission instead of to the Board the proposed survey of the river's tributaries, a task which will take many years; 2) to lessen the Government's liability for damages and expenses by specifying that damage claims are not retroactive and providing that the U. S. need not buy flowage rights over lands which the river now floods naturally. The face cost of the bill remained...
...other U. S. citizen was known to have been killed in China, last week, but out of the Whangpoo River, eight miles below Shanghai, there was fished the lifeless body of U. S. Vice Consul Walter B. Wilson Jr., who had mysteriously disappeared a week previous...
...balls become bottles. Typewriter keys dance. Faster and faster until noon. A lull. Sausages and beer. Chicken and silver platters. An elephant yawns and wags his tail slowly. Machinery moves again. So do feet, taxicabs, street cars, the arms of traffic officers. There is a suicide at the river, a bubble in the water. Workmen wash their hands and the factory gates roll shut. Rowboats on the river, tennis, golf, a kiss in the dusk on a park bench. . . . Headlights and signboards glitter. At the cinema the feet of Charles Chaplin are shown. Bare arms and bare legs...
...Philadelphia regatta, Coach E. J. Brown '96 will have two entries, the University and Jayvee boats, both of them untested hitherto off the Charles River Basin. The strongest opponents of the University in both events will be the high-Stroking Navy Combinations, which have scored early season triumphs over M. I. T. with about the same margin to spare as that shown by the Harvard crews in their victories over the Engineers...
This afternoon on the Schuylkill River, the undefeated first-string Crimson oarsmen stroked by Captain John Watts '28, will face the Navy and Pennsylvania eight in a race, the results of which will have an important bearing on the Olympic status of all Eastern college crews...