Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...political trade planted Washington on the Potomac mudflats. Thomas Jefferson gave Southern support to Alexander Hamilton's campaign to have the U. S. assume the full cost of the Revolution. In return, in 1790, Hamilton helped Jefferson pass legislation locating the new capital in the South on the Potomac River. President Washington picked the site?100 sq. mi. ceded by Maryland and Virginia to the U. S. at the head of tide water. He called the new Capital "The Federal City." Jefferson, Madison and the three commissioners chosen to lay out the city, referred to it from the start...
...finish first. Three lengths behind them the Navy men were still rowing. A little later they too flattened their oars but they did not bother to sit up straight. Still later, U. S. Subchaser No. 440, which had carried the Navy shells and oars from Annapolis to the Harlem River, took them back to Annapolis. Glendon Jr. did not answer his father's telegram. He merely remarked to questioners, "Oh, that's an old New England saying...
...Charles River last week, three Princeton crews beat three M. I. T. crews. Princeton did not use its mysterious new shell, The Flying Dutchman. This shell, anonymously given, appeared prepaid one day at the Princeton boat house. It is eight feet shorter than the average shell, and nine inches wider. Flatbottomed, it is designed to skim the water rather than cut it. When it goes fast, it rises out of the water like a motor boat...
...fall for seven falls from a running horse; $25 per run for 24 runs driving six horses down a precipitous hill and crawling out on the tongue of the coach while the horses were at full speed; $100 for riding a horse off a 20-ft. cliff into a river. Clown. In Berlin, Adrian Wettach of Biel, Switzerland, famed through Europe as Clown Crock, last week formed his own picture company, announced that he would be actor, director, author; that his films would rival Charles Chaplin's; that they would have no happy endings...
There has been no opportunity, on account of the strong winds, to go over the new course in the Charles River Basin, but the eights rowed separately and at a low beat from the start to the Harvard Bridge yesterday afternoon...