Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although there is very little choice betwen the two lanes, there is a slightly stronger current in the middle of the river which makes the East course the favorite...
...York 170 6.00 20 Cox., R. W. Herr '28 Boston 115 5.05 21 Harvard Freshman Crew Position Name Class Residence Wt. Ht. Age Stroke S. W. Swaim '31 Needham 162 6.00 18 No. 7 A. N. Webster '31 Lexington 173 6.03 18 No. 6 N. E. Parkinson '31 Charles River 173 6.01 20 No. 5 Lawrence Grinell '31 So. Dartmouth 187 6.03 18 No. 4 E. E. Whitman '31 Cedarhurst, L. I. 184 6.00 20 No. 3 Frederick Ayer '31 New York 172 6.03 19 No. 2 P. H. Watts '31 Morristown 165 6.00 20 Bow R. J. McKesson...
Coach Brown has decided to have the first crew use the Pocock shell given by John Watt's father in the race on Saturday. The conditions today were poor, with rough water, and a strong south westerly wind. It was very hot on the river...
...while the bill was getting through Congress. The "pocket" method of vetoing saves a President the trouble, or embarrassment, of saying why he disapproves. Presumably, President Coolidge "pocketed" the Muscle Shoals bill because it called for Federal operation of the Government's Wartime power-plant on the Tennessee River and for Federal manufacture of fixed nitrogen, which is used in fertilizer and explosives. President Coolidge had urged that the Government lease or sell the power plant and let private interests make power, fertilizer, explosives, without Federal competition. Keeping-the-Government-out-of-business is a prime tenet...
...Tokyo company serves 11,395 sq. mi. across the most populous and highly developed midsection of Nippon, Japan's main island. In the territory are Tokyo (population 2,000,000) where the imperial government sits, Yokohama the seaport, and a great hinterland of rice fields, silkworm farms and river industries. Along Tokyo bay are shipyards, steel & iron foundries, factories for making textiles, paper, chemicals, machinery, pottery, cement, rayon. What coal those plants can get in Japan is of poor grade; what coal they can get by import is expensive. So they turn for power to electricity. And the Tokyo...