Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York and Jersey Cities formally opened the 9,250-ft. Holland vehicular tunnel connecting them under the Hudson River (TiME, Aug. 30, 1926). Aboard the yacht Mayflower, midstream in the Potomac, the President pressed the same gold telegraph key which President Wilson pressed in 1914 to blast open the Panama Canal. At the Coolidge touch, U. S. flags fell away from the ends of the Holland tubes. Officials of New Jersey streamed underground into New York and vice versa, followed in the first hour by 20,000 common citizens...
...rehabilitation progressed, reliable reports of the flood and its aftermath came out of New England river valleys...
...next day each starts where the other had done on the previous day. In this way a boat can ordinarily, if good enough, go up six places in a year in each series of races. Except the top boat of the first division, the Head of the River, top boats of divisions row again the same day as bottom boats of the divisions above them. In this way the gap between divisions is bridged...
...ruin. But he knows his boat and can tell from the feel what is happening. At last there is a slight jolt and the cox ahead rises his hand. But it is a tremendous relief to all when "easy all' follows the bump and one place higher on the river has been reached in safety...
Perhaps the most pleasant memory of all is of that last stretch home from Iffley to the barge in January. Returning late from a long journey we find all deserted and quiet. From the river rises the evening fog clothing in mystery the willows on the banks. Only the rhythmical click of the oars in the row-locks breaks the silence. Eight-blades swing regularly together and softly dip. Everyone is conscious of the music fundamental to rowing