Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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First Suit. Five tributaries of the Delaware River, which flows through New Jersey, rise in New York. New York, declares New Jersey, is now planning to construct dams and reservoirs to turn much of the water from those five tributaries to its own use. New Jersey would prevent New York from so doing...
Philadelphia, May 24--The Harvard 150-pound crew and the third University eight will be up against crack crews in these classes when they race over the Henley course on the Schuylkill River here tomorrow. Gathered for competition in the American Henley are oarsmen from Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Navy, and Pennsylvania...
...this same statute annoys many Harvard students. The Hemenway Gymnasium, the squash courts, both boathouses, and the Soldiers Field athletic facilities are all open Sunday afternoon. But since a corner of Jarvis Field lies within the charmed thousand-foot radius around a church the tennis enthusiast must cross the river to the crowded and inferior courts of Soldiers Field...
...first quarter mile, but gradually dropped behind after that point. The lightweights continued to keep the half length's lead over the third University crew which they had taken early in the race, responding to every attempt the latter made to pass. At the bend in the river by the Weeks bridge the leading crew increased its margin, but dropped back again when it had the outside on the next bend. At the finish it was almost a dozen feet behind the hand-pressing third University shell...
...Kublai Khan, grandson of Genghis, Xanadu, who decreed a stately pleasure near the sacred river Alph...