Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Expenditure of $24,000,000 last year for levees, revetments and dredging in the Mississippi River advanced Flood Control so far that "the largest flood that has ever passed down the river without serious crevasses was held between the main river levees without any disastrous breaks." This year's expenditure...
...again opens the season with a race against the Crimson crews on April 26. Harvard, Navy, Pennsylvania, and M. I. T. all compete in a quadrangular regatta on the Charles river on May 17. The following Saturday the crew will make a trip to Ithaca where a race will be held with Cornell and Syracuse. The Yale regatta will complete the season on June 20 at New London. In addition, the third University crew will compete in the American Rowing Association Regatta at Philadelphia on May 31, while a crew composed of University and Freshman substitutes will meet the Yale...
...Yard. With the advent of the House Plan and the resultant hegira toward the banks of the Charles there has arisen, and will probably continue to do so, a wailing chorus decrying the passing of ivy walls and boardwalks as the last-year men go down to the river...
...came home from debates across the Charles their feet buried in straw on the floor of a horse car later still in electric street cars they made the trip from Marleave's Cafe in twenty five minutes and now they drop into the subway and are rushed under the river get a drink at a Boston blind pig and are back for their next class. After a couple of centuries of carrying water to the washbowls or splashing themselves at the college pump they have come by the luxury of individual bathrooms and running hot and cold water...
...practicable. But if the ship were sent, might not a precedent be set?civilians being the importunate souls they are?that would keep the Lexington dashing up and down the Pacific Coast, and her sister the Saratoga up and down the Atlantic, turning on "emergency" power every time a river ran low? Washington's Senator Wesley Livsey Jones persuaded Secretary Adams that Tacoma's situation was really growing grave. Secretary Adams said he could not let the Lexington help out unless Tacoma would promise to use only an absolutely essential minimum of the ship's energy. Senator Jones so advised...