Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...uses dry flies and worms. He catches about fifty-fifty with the two baits. He fishes in the lakes and in the river and he catches the trout both places. He doesn't talk very much, just when necessary. He never gets at all excited when he takes a good fish. He's fine that...
...left the train at Superior and was driven through the streets in the middle of a small parade of American Legionnaires and police. He reached Cedar Island Lodge on the Brule River, 35 miles away, shortly before noon. Mrs. Coolidge appeared at the lodge 40 minutes later, having stayed on the train until it reached a place called Winneboujou, in order to avoid a long automobile ride...
Almost before anybody could say "Jack Robinson," the President pulled out a fishing rod and was angling in Brule River from the bridge near the lodge. Then he went to Lake Nebagamon, several miles away; but no one knew which fish he caught...
Unimpressed by the new importance of the Beaver Man, enemy of floods, angry rivers burst dykes, fell upon Arkansas and Missouri farmers. Hundreds scurried to the safety of high hills, driving kin and kine before them. In their wake came the flood waters of the White River, deluging 40,000 acres in Arkansas. Missourians fought the rising St. Francis, already claiming 25,000 acres, with the crest yet to come. Mississippi valley dwellers remembered 1927, wondered if the Beaver Man would help...
...borrowed from a country to which England ready owes so much. Both in fitness and in scope it grows as we look at it. The University which is beaten in the Boat Race has been able hitherto to console itself by declaring that to lead on the river has always been to lag in learning. That consolation can now be either substantiated, or blown away as a false and flattering unction to which no man nor society of men would care to be indebted. For many a year Cambridge has sneered at the vagueness of the Oxford mind, and Oxford...