Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week was rounded off with a leisurely, over-Saturday-and-Sunday-night Potomac river cruise on the yacht Mayflower. Distinguished super cargo included Senators Curtis of Kansas, Oddie of Nevada, Ashurst of Arizona and tall, clever Smoot of Utah; also Assistant Secretary of War Hanford MacNider and Mrs. MacNider, Commissioner R. K. Smith of the Shipping Board, and Mrs. Smith...
...Detroit River offered a situation during the past summer that was considered desperate. By additions to the land and the water forces, however, we have checked almost completely the smuggling activities of bootleggers. And what is true here is true also of the country at large...
...Canadian farmer with a team of horses tugged the wreckage of an airplane out of the St. Lawrence River. In the cockpit were found a watch and a pair of socks. A wing section, 13 feet long, washed up elsewhere. Of the flyers no trace...
...University and Freshman cross country teams will meet the strong Massachusetts Agricultural College teams on the Charles River course this afternoon. The Freshman race will start at 3.30 o'clock, while the University harriers will start at 4 o'clock. The Freshmen will elect a captain following the race today. All men on the Freshman squad are eligible to vote in the election...
...Professor Carl Larue of the University of Michigan to investigate last year in Brazil. Professor Larue reported favorably. Then Mr. Ford asked for and received a concession of between 3,000,000 and 4,000,000 acres in Para, in the Amazon Valley, a black jungle along the Tapajos River, that crawls all the way from the River of Doubt to the Xingu River. Soon boa constrictors will slip down into the jungle centres; monkeys will set up a great chattering. Black Indians armed with heavy blades will slash down their one-time haunts to make way for future windshield...