Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York Times, "there were at times some terrible views. We would look hundreds of feet into fog valleys-dark ominous depths. At times the cloud peaks on the horizon looked exactly like a land of mountains. At other times they took on the appearance of a beautiful lake or river...
...more than two decades, Columbia University has had varsity crews that have just missed being good. The 1927 season seemed, at the beginning, no exception. With an all-sophomore crew, which had been magnificent in 1926 as freshmen, Columbia's hopes were thwarted on the Housatonic River in May by Yale. Then Columbia tried a shakeup, put a couple of upperclassmen in the boat, trailed the Navy and Princeton in the combined Stewards' and Childs' Cup regatta at Philadelphia a few weeks later...
...Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon who were sent over from England to settle the dispute between the Baltimore and Penn families following Charles IPs grant to William Penn. When slavery became a U. S. issue, the Line was thought of as extending west via the Ohio River and the upper boundary of Missouri, separating free from slave states, North from South...
...Irish bulls Mr. Smiddy spokes not facetiously but in deadly earnest. He spoke moreover of the River Shannon, not with a gushing Irish tear but as a businessman interested in hydro-electric power. "The Shannon," said Minister Smiddy, briskly, "is the largest river in Ireland and larger than any in England. . . . An hydroelectric installation is being effected in two stages. With completion of the first stage there will be available in 15 months 90,000,000 horsepower at a cost of $26,000,000, thus ultimately bringing light and cheer into every Free State village of a population above...
...March 28 et seq.) loomed with such vital portent last week that three U. S. Senators were busy in China, making personal investigations on the spot. Senator Hiram Bingham, Connecticut Republican, pushed his tour of China (TIME, May 9) to the extreme of venturing 400 miles up the great river Yangtze, last week into the very heart of "Chinese Communist" territory. Since he traveled on a U. S. warboat, the Senator was effusively greeted at Hankow by the "Communist" Foreign Minister Eugene Chen (TIME, Jan. 24). Later Mr. Bingham pushed on to Ichang, in the extreme upper reaches...