Word: shores
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...trip this summer will consist of a study of shore line changes along the Atlantic coast. Professor Johnson, accompanied by two assistants, will examine the more important shore line features from the Bay of Fundy to southern Florida, giving special attention to geologically recent changes in the forms of beaches and to supposed evidence of recent coastal subsidence. Lines of levels will be run between the ocean and lagoons, bays, etc., to ascertain the relative heights of high tides at different points on the irregular shores, in the belief that the data thus secured will throw light on the problem...
...Charles river just below the Boylston street bridge about 2 o'clock last Saturday afternoon. Parsons had gone out from the Weld Boathouse in a compromise. According to a friend he was returning for a heavier boat, and had reached a point about twenty feet off the shore opposite the Weld Boat Club, when in attempting to turn he capsized. The boat was carried down stream by the wind, and as Parsons was a poor swimmer, he was unable to keep himself afloat until aid reached him. The body was recovered by the police after four hours' dragging, and will...
Father Huntington is widely known as the founder of the Order of the Holy Cross, whose monastery is situated on the west shore of the Hudson River, above West Point...
...afternoon work was much heavier, the University eight rowing over to the half-mile flag near the opposite shore and from this point three and one-half miles down-stream to the New London bridge in one stretch. The crew averaged 30 for the first two miles and a half and then Cutler raised the beat as high as 33 for the last half mile. Considering the strong head wind and tide the work of the crew was fairly good and although at times the men did not get the correct proportion throughout the stroke, the tendency to pound...
...yesterday's race, the contestants kept together in the lee of the Boston shore for half a mile. Then Lynn drew ahead with Parker close behind, keeping this order until within 250 yards of the finish, when Parker spurted and won easily. Peabody finished third and Orr fourth...