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...first University crew will have but ten days in which to round into form before the race with the Engineers, who inaugurated their season on Saturday with a three length victory over the Navy eight on the Severn. This was the first Technology win over the Middles in nine years of racing and it portends that the Crimson oarsmen have no easy time ahead...
...melodramatic finale is out of key with a long leisurely narrative, packed as it is with rhapsodies on the Severn ("Sabrina Fair"), characterizations of local gentry, exposition of the difficulties and triumphs of a doctor's career...
...author to handle. The plot usually well-sustained, at points of maximum action strays, wobbles, stumbles. Of the characters, categorical differentiations are employed to help the reader tell one from the other, but the net effect is of a houseful of wooden Indians worked by wires. Not since Anne Severn and the Fieldings (1922) has May Sinclair been herself...
...steam. A totally different method of using tidal energy is to "harness" the powerful ebb-and-flow movement of the tides. Three important projects are already under way to accomplish this-at Passamoquody Bay (see p. 31) inlet of the Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia; at Sudbury on the Severn, Eng. .and at Aber-Vrach on the Brittany coast. At all three places there are long, narrow estuaries, into which tides rush with enormous energy. Water turbines, set in dams built across these arms of the sea, will whirl as the tides rush through them; and electricity will be produced...
Shattering the two mile record for the Severn course last Saturday, the Navy crew swept in a winner, leading the University eight by two lengths and Syracuse by five lengths. The time for the Annapolis boat was 9m. 24 4-5s., which broke the former record of 9m. 30s., while the University and the Syracuse crews came in just 7 and 16 seconds later respectively...