Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...later, for practical jokes. So he feels that he is wholly within his rights in making a resolution on the first of May--namely that his suggestions for the second day of this month eschew the consideration of laudable but after all secondary matters such as excursions up the river and Divisional Examinations, in favor of what is in the last analysis his particular line of activity: the academic...
Saturday afternoon the first Freshman crew will meet the Engineers in the Charles River Basin...
...Freshman crews and the corresponding M. I. T. boats, which was to have taken place on Saturday will be held tomorrow, according to an announcement made last night. The change of the date was necessitated by the large number of races which are to be held over the Charles River course at that time...
Black and troubled run the waters of Alaska's Yukon River, as they always do at April's end. Cause of the Yukon's blackness: it is stuffed, crammed, jammed with malacopterygian teleosteans. By tens of thousands they are crowding upstream. Waterfalls as high as 15 ft. cannot stop them; a flirt of their powerful tails puts them over. They plunge under the face of higher falls, seeking a tail-hold for a second leap. As they hurl their sleek, silvery bodies over the falls, it is clear why they are called "salmon." (Latin salmo means...
...Whites translated the former into Merrimac and the latter into Amoskeag. So when, along in 1831, a big cotton mill was built in the High Place for Fish along the Place of the Swift Waters, the cotton mill was named Amoskeag Manufacturing Co., and was located on the Merrimac River. Famed among U. S. textile plants became Amoskeag; countless were the cotton bales it turned into cotton cloth. A 1927 textile survey rated Amoskeag as world's largest cotton maker. Its cottons, its wools and its rayons kept busy 800,000 spindles, 25,000 looms. Wherever textiles were mentioned...