Word: tidal
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...question if the movements of geese in Florida waters can supply much of this, however, even if they are moving north. The Canada geese winter just south of the ice, in ordinary winters being found about Cape Cod even in the severest weather. This year the tidal flats which are their favorite feeding places have been iced up far below their usual limits. It may well be that they have gone farther south in unusual numbers, and are merely taking a brief trip up the coast for a "look in" on more familiar feeding places...
...number of other men. The others failed to come to the scratch, so that the race became as it were a try-out between the new-fangled seats and the old. Trowbridge beat Russell up to the turning-stake: but the Charles in those days had a strong tidal current, and Trowbridge's out-rigger fouled the stake. That gave Russell a lead which Trowbridge could not overcome, but the beaten oarsman had at least demonstrated the value of the simple innovation. CHARLES R. LAXMAN...