Word: stream
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Captain Hartley eased the Leviathan out into the stream. The little Clermont, a replica of Fulton's invention (the first steamship), appeared and led the way down the bay. Six aeroplanes above formed a guard of honor, and stayed by till the Leviathan passed Sandy Hook. Then out on the open sea, taking a steady pace of 23 knots, the monster laid her course for Cherbourg and Southampton...
...seem farfetched, such is not the case. During the current month a Western press agent, exploiting a cinema of whaling days, planted a full-sized cardboard whale on the top of Pike's Peak, crawled inside it with a hundred siphons, projected the liquid in a towering stream through the creature's nose. The mystified populace stampeded from the plains to view the curiosity. The papers carried columns. My, how the money rolled in! Naturally, the papers are wary; so suspicious, in fact, that only an occasional "planted" story is successful. Necessarily the press agent must be highly...
This morning and afternoon short sprints featured the work, of all the crews, Coach Muller taking his eights down stream to the Navy Yard, and Coach Bert Haines accompanying the Freshmen over a similar course late this afternoon...
Practice today was featured by a Freshman time-trial over the two-mile course down-stream. The time of 9 minutes 43 seconds is exceptionally good for the distance, and gives promise of a strong Crimson bid for victory over the speedy Eli 1926 boat...
Conditions were ideal when the two shells lined up at the railroad bridge at 7.15 o'clock after being brought down stream lvy the launches. A slight following tide was behind the crews while the lack of wind obviated any trouble in this direction. Starting out on practically even terms the rival eights reached the mid-way mark with little to choose between them. At this point the Freshman and Combination crews took up the challenge and all four went on up the course together...