Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There are probably half a dozen states in the Union where colored votes could settle a Presidential election. Why not settle it? They can settle them [elections] in Chicago, Detroit, New York, probably in Cleveland, along the Ohio River. ... It is a scurvy trade to make a living out of politics...
...Brooklyn apartment. Fearful, he locked the door, pulled down the shades. Then he set to work to hack her body into smaller pieces. As he tore loose each limb, he wrapped the mess in a neat bundle; at night a policeman caught him throwing the packages into the East River...
...when Cambridge was only a pleasant village lying between the University and the river and Boston was merely a thriving town, students and citizens of Cambridge were wont to use the Charlestown Ferry, or for variety's sake, they journeyed on the more round-about way of "Roxbury Neck." The ferry belonged to the college by a grant from the General Court and brought in to the University every year an income of about 500 pounds in New England currency, or 50 pounds sterling, a considerable sum according to the standards of the time...
...merely a manifestation of the idea, will go on to Pekin or not, I am not prepared to say. With the advance on Shanghai they have gained control of about one half the country. Much severer fighting awaits them, however, if they begin to advance north of the Yangtse River into the Northern home territory. As for the present movement making China into a formidable world power, I do not believe that China will become imperialistic, certainly not in the near future...
...Lancashire, England, and has played soccer abroad and in this country for fifteen years. After playing on an English professional team of the Northern Third Divisional league, he came to the United States and played on some of the best teams in the country, being a member of Fore River team of Quincy in the National Championships of 1920. For the past six years he has been manager and coach of the Abbot Worsted team in Forge Village, Westford, and succeeded in producing three championship teams...