Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...blue garter worked with gold, upon William Henry Grenfell, 72, Baron Desborough, now president of the British Imperial Council of Commerce, but in his day a famed climber of the Alps and U. S. Rocky Mountains and a swimmer of such prowess that he twice breasted the Niagara River...
...their most distinguished members, Charles Sims, had sent six pictures for hanging. His eagerness to have the pictures shown was well known, but the members of the Academy were less willing to put them on display. Charles Sims had committed suicide the previous week by jumping in a river with stones in his pockets; his six paintings were obviously the work of a madman...
Finding the Charles River Basin unexpectedly calm yesterday, seven Harvard crews were able to hold time trials over their respective distances for the first time this spring...
Unfortunately there will not be time enough for the completion of the boat this spring and the "John Harvard", which was to be scrapped on the arrival of the new launch will see another season's service on the Charles River...
...Crimson combinations rowed a steady 30-stroke beat most of the distance, with L. D. Parker '30 keeping the Ineligibles to an even 28 strokes to the minute. The weather conditions, even on the up-river stretch between the Arsenal Bridge and Gerry's Landing, were of a sort yesterday to afford a gruelling test for the oarsmen...