Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...willing and placid figurehead, who serves to mask the activities of seclusive Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin. Characteristically the seldom-or-never-seen Dictator kept himself within the thick-walled Kremlin, last week, while the Royal Afghans were lodged just outside, in a sumptuous marble palace overlooking the Moskva River. Soviet press censors would take care that no word of secret conferences between King and Dictator should leak out until favorable results could be reported...
Tsinan, the capital of Shantung province, was captured from the troops of Peking Dictator Chang Tso-Lin last week by the armies of the Nanking Nationalist Government. The Peking troops fled to positions on the northern bank of the Yellow River; but meanwhile the Nanking soldiers had become embroiled with Japanese troops who had come up from Tsing Tao to guard the Tsinan Japanese colony...
...Charles River Basin was the scene of three mile races yesterday afternoon between lightweight Crimson crews and M. I. T. and Browne and Nichols boats...
...those who may tire of waiting for the finishes of the various boat races to be run off Saturday in the Harvard-Cornell-M. I. T. regatta on the Charles River Basin, an unusual means of diversion will be extended. Under the auspices of the Tech Boat Club, a tea dance will be held from 3 until 6 o'clock, in the Walker Memorial, for Harvard, M. I. T. and Cornell students...
...close time-trial race on the Charles River Basin featured yesterday's practice for the two University crews. Coach E. J. Brown '96 turned his oarsmen downstream early in the afternoon for a limbering up pull over the mile and three quarters course preliminary to the regatta with Cornell and Tech on Saturday, and found conditions favorable enough for a handicap test...