Word: waterous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Contrary to the reports in the Boston papers yesterday, the various swimming pools at Harvard will not be drained for the winter because of water shortage, according to a statement by T. W. Good, of the Cambridge Water department. The report had previously been circulated that the reservoir in Lincoln, which supplies the city of Cambridge, was so low that no hockey rinks might be maintained, and that all swimming pools would have to be drained during the winter months...
...sand beaches once each year, to dispose of their eggs in holes dug in the sand with their flippers. Six or eight weeks later the eggs hatch in the warm sand and the baby turtles troop down to the sea to spend the rest of their lives in the water. "Elementary Animals" is a microscopic study of the Amoeba and other Rhizopods...
...industrial revolution which took place about 100 years ago when the steam engine was a new invention is compared with the achievements of modern industry by the general use of electricity. Comparison is made between our water power resources and our coal deposits, and it shows that there is enough coal used yearly to build a Chinese Wall entirely around the United States. Animated drawings demonstrate the operation of a steam turbine and the generation of alternating current. The story ends with the construction of a modern electric power plant and a glance into the future of the electric power...
...Salt Water reintroduces Frank Craven who has a gift for appearing nettled. His present opportunity is that of a landlubber whose plans to follow his ancestors on the high seas are thwarted by his wife's purchase of a ferry boat...
...long after we made our desires known. . . . When we took him out of the box . . . the little thing was so sleepy and tired from long hours . . . on the train that he toppled over drowsily and went to sleep at once." The kitten was named Bounder. He enjoyed playing with water (was apt to jump into tubs drawn for the Coolidges if they failed to watch him), delighted in shooting the chutes (back stairs) in a laundry basket, died of nervous exhaustion after a hilarious Fourth of July.* Thus wrote Mrs. Grace Coolidge in the December American magazine. She told...