Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nephew of Guide La Roque, to paddle him seven miles down the Brule from a place called Stone Bridge. Past beaver houses, mink holes, deer licks, naked rampikes, swarms of mosquitoes and a military outpost, who carefully examined the voyageurs, the newsgatherer came to a thin hedge screening the river from a lake which it entered. Across the lake was a log cabin with a wet U. S. flag hanging over it. On the lake was a guide boat with a chair in it. In the chair sat a figure in a slicker and ten-gallon hat. He was watching...
Forty-nine Russians and three Germans face the Soviet Supreme Court, the Russians charged with High Treason and all defendants with conspiracy to sabotage* the vital Soviet coal mines in the region of the River...
...Hudson. The way experts figured it out, either Columbia or California had to win. But when, at Poughkeepsie, a gun went off and seven crews splashed in a racing start, it was Cornell that jumped out in front. Down the river, wide and grey, covered with launches, canoes, yachts, ferryboats, the boats moved from Krums Elbow toward the bridge that rose, a web of iron, in the mist. At the mile and a half, Cornell had more than a length on the others. At two and a half miles, Cornell was rowed out and Columbia was leading California...
...cloudy evening below Gales Ferry the two boats went away. Harvard was in front for the first 50 yards and never after that. Past the flags that marked the first mile, past the cluster of brick buildings at the submarine base, Yale moved steadily, powerfully, on a river turned into a theatre. Movie men cranking on the stone piers of the bridge photographed the coxswain throwing up his hands to show his crew that they had crossed the line. Ten lengths behind, the heavy Harvard crew, too tired to sprint, lumbered up to the bridge, collapsed. Said Yale Coach Leader...
...Rhodes." The slander: that Livingston married a black, that Stanley was a murderer, that Rhodes, drunk on prickly-pear brandy, had to be rescued from the crocodile. Employed for many years by the English firm (Hatton & Cookson) which sent "Horn" to Africa, Puleston declares that the recorded exploring expeditions, river charting, native battles, elephant hunts, "gorilla purveys," and rescue of a captive English girl, were impossible for any young employe, virtually a desk-bound office boy, of Hatton & Cookson. Unfortunately "Horn" lays claim to these experiences during his term of employ by that prosaic firm-a term which Employe Puleston...