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Thus, the small number of portages required will be for short distances only and never will necessitate a climb of more than 15 feet. Between dams the river is surprisingly level; hence, little swift water is expected to retard the upstream voyage...
...ancient bed of the Lindenmeier River corresponds with a certain terrace in the present valley," he explained. "This terrace in the Lindenmeier Valley can be traced miles downstream to the South Platte River. From here it can be followed upstream to the canyons in the Rocky Mountains. The formation of these canyons is closely connected with the retreat of the last great glacial advance, which is a standard for chronology...
Married. Author Ludwig Lewisohn, 56 (The Modern Drama, Upstream, The Creative Life); and Edna Manley, 31, who fell in love with him from reading his books; after one ceremony had been broken up by portly Thelma Bowman Spear, 36, who claimed she was Lewisohn's common-law spouse, shouted: "I have been his wife, his muse, his soul"; in Baltimore, Md. Next day Miss Spear turned up in Manhattan (where the Lewisohns were honeymooning). Newsmen, photographers heard her plaints, watched Son Jimmy, 6, bite her hand, scream: "I never did like you. I want to go to my father...
With the river finally dammed, the water rose rapidly and Jan. 13 was set for the takeoff. Suddenly the dam started giving way. Britons and blacks pitched in together, toiled side by side all night, finally stopped the leaks. Meanwhile the water level had sunk, the Corsair was sitting upstream, on her bottom. Tearing his hair was Imperial Airways Ace Captain Kelly Rogers, first pilot to land in New York harbor at night, who inaugurated the British north Atlantic mail service. Said he afterward: "To lift the Corsair from the water we had to sink huge petrol tanks under...
...Cumberland is formed by the junction of Poor Fork and Clover Fork of Cumberland at Baxter, in Harlan County, Kentucky, some 200 miles upstream from Celina where the Obey flows into the Cumberland...