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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...technical, if not nebulous, value of the Byrd observations, the aerial discovery of the Rockefeller Jr. Mountains, Cook Tennant's Peak and Hal Flood Bay did not make a sensational newspaper story. Pure science is seldom sensational, and Commander Byrd's report clung to the phrase: "Another river crossed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A Jolly Place | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

...introduction of these companies every respectable house holder kept a pair of leathern buckets in his room. When a fire occurred the townspeople pulled out the fire engine, a crude, hand-worked pump which they kept filled by means of bucket chains extending to the nearest lake or river. One of these engines is shown in the accompanying picture with a fireman on top directing the liquid stream...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: History of Fire Companies Recalled by Notice in Baker Library---Mayor and Council Went to Fire in Full Regalia | 2/6/1929 | See Source »

Performances during the Spring term have been scheduled in New York, New Bedford, Milton, Fall River, Portland, Exeter, and Boston. The first appearance will be followed by a dance under the auspices of the Union. The following week the Clubs will depart for New York where they will play in the Town Hall, Saturday night, February...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUSICIANS BEGIN WORK TONIGHT | 2/5/1929 | See Source »

Training will commence immediately with work in the tank at regular times, but crews will probably not get out on the Charles River until early in March. Five members of last year's first crew, in addition to Clark, will be on hand tonight. They are Guy Murchie '29, C. E. Mason '30, W. T. Emmett '29, L. W. Dickey '30, and J. de W. Bubbard '29. From the second University crew there will be James Lawrence, Jr. '29, Allerton Cushman '29, B. J. Harrison '29, A. A. Campbell '30, C. McK. Norton '29, M. R. Brownell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BROWN AND HAINES SUMMON OARSMEN | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

...learned yesterday that a survey is being made of the Charles River Basin in order to secure a course nearer the Boston side where the water is more calm. If its is possible to do so, a two mile course without any curves may be laid out starting near the new Cottage Farm Bridge and ending at the Cambridge Bridge. The present course is one and three quarter miles in length...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BROWN AND HAINES SUMMON OARSMEN | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

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