Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year when the capacity was finally reached. In previous years, a large number of College and Law School students have been accommodated in Business School dormitories. This year, it was necessary greatly to reduce the number of such students and there are now but 75 outsiders living across the river, as contrasted with 187 last year. Eventually it is the purpose of the authorities to eliminate altogether such outsiders...
...fleet of 18 shells which has been practicing on the Charles River for the past two days will soon be augmented by a number of boats manned by Freshmen having their first crew experience this fall. The Leviathan has been taking several trips each afternoon under the direction of Coach H. H. Haines and the green oarsmen will be shipped in shells as soon as they have mastered the fundamentals...
...announcement is strictly in line with the broad, enlightened and public-spirited policy of the Morgan firm in dealing with the questions in which the people are concerned. The fact that current is being delivered to household consumers by the Province of Ontario on the Canadian side of the river at 2 ¢ per kilowatt hour and at 8 ¢ on the American side tells its own story...
Last week the Council and Mr. Davis announced a bold solution of Russia's cotton problem. Into the vast parched plain known as the Golodnaya Steppes or "Hungry Desert" two mighty rivers will be diverted. One, the Amudaria, is famed as the longest stream in Asiatic Russia (1,500 mi.). Superstitious peasants call it "The Strewer of Life." The other river is the Sirdaria, "The Giver of Gold." Together they will supply 10,000 cubic feet of water per second for one of the vastest irrigation projects of modern times. Once watered, the "Hungry Desert" will present ideal conditions...
...project covers almost every square mile of arid area in Turkestan down to the Afghanistan boundary and northward to the 42nd parallel, which is at the mouth of the Amudaria River, and includes the great plains over which Tamerlane, Alex ander the Great and other warriors marched their conquering but weary hordes...