Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rocky River...
...Jones of the Senate Commerce Committee and found some good in it, since it recognized the principle of local contribution and since it placed Chief of Engineers Jadwin, and a civilian engineer to be appointed by the President, on a board of three (with the president of the Mississippi River Commission) to oversee the work. However, the Jones bill called for $325,000,000, or some 31 millions more than the discarded Administration bill. It called for all this outlay from the U.S. Treasury, local communities contributing only one third of the costs of raising old levees to their proper...
...from malaria, recently reached the top by following a ledge* that ran thinly up Mt. Roraima from the Brazilian side. Atop Mt. Roraima they found themselves on a remarkably flat tableland, 12 miles square, something like the flat land of Arizona through which the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River cuts...
...mere day or so ago the might "Leviathan" was ferrying the more ambitious Freshmen up and down the river between cakes of ice: The Yard squirrels, seized with a touch of spring madness, had begun to disdain the sacrifices offered them. The Geology Department was wondering whether it was not time for field trips to begin. The budding poets had been taken with the desire to scribble about the young man's fancy in spring...
...brief cruise marked the semi-official launching of the outdoor spring crew season, as it is expected that the weather and river conditions will permit outdoor workouts nearly every day from now on. On January 13 five shells ventured out on a quarter of a mile of open water in the earliest workout recorded. A day or two later the ice again blocked the water...