Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flood was, indeed, in its last stages?no grand finale but a slow seeping into the Gulf of Mexico. A comparatively small area in the extreme southern portion of the Atchafalaya River basin?was still experiencing tense moments, but no major levees had "gone out" and even in northern Louisiana the waters were falling...
McKinlock Hall, the latest of the Freshman Halls to be erected along the Charles River, will be dedicated at 3 o'clock today. A program of exercises will be held in the McKinlock quadrangle at which the speakers will be President Lowell, Dean C. N. Greenough '98, General R. E. Summerall, the general of the division in which George Alexander McKinlock Jr. '16 served on the western front in the World War, and Dr. William Greenough Thayer, Headmaster of St. Mark's School, where McKinlock took his preparatory course for Harvard...
...convention at Detroit. Mr. Farrell organized the Council in 1914 and has always been its chairman. When he rapped for order, he got it. Nor did many of the 2,000 manufacturers, merchants, shippers, railroaders, steamship men, importers and exporters who went to Detroit last week stray across the river to Windsor, Ontario, seeking a glass of good beer...
...Harris had led a lively life. From earliest boyhood he had been in and out of "hot water." Expelled for pranks from Black River Academy, expelled for "his love of fun" from the University of Vermont, he managed to finish his education at Princeton. The next few years he served as night clerk in a Florida hotel, acted in a Denver stock company, reported for newspapers, punched cows, mastered the traveling man's profession. He sailed to England on a cattleship, batting around at many an odd job and alwayssto this he attributes his success?always keeping "well-dressed...
...River of Doubt." Commander George Miller Dyott, English explorer and writer, started up the Amazon River in Brazil last summer. At tantalizing intervals he informed the world, through his radio set, that he was alive. One message was broadcast from the headwaters of the Roosevelt River ("River of Doubt"). Five weeks ago, Commander Dyott arrived in Manhattan with a photographic record which substantiates the late Theodore Roosevelt's charting of this 900-mile river, running from the Brazilian plateau into the Madeira River, tributary of the Amazon. He saw stone markers which had been left by the Roosevelt expedition...