Word: waterous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Puerto Ricans is chiefly New York's; more than 90% of them land in New York City. Estimates are that 350,000 are now in burgeoning colonies in Manhattan, Brooklyn and The Bronx. The worst congestion is in "Spanish Harlem," a slum of old, dark, dirt-crusted, cold-water tenements on Manhattan's upper East Side...
Those who tried swimming in the infected water complained of breaking out in a rash. Strangely, no sea birds wheeled and screamed over the decaying mass. They had disappeared...
...phenomenon. Dr. F. G. Walton Smith, director of the University of Miami's Marine Laboratory, was sure it was a sudden multiplication of a new species of tiny, one-celled organisms called gymnodinium. He had found as many as 60 million of them in a quart of "red" water. The fish were killed either by a poison secreted by these organisms or as a result of their death and decay, he thought. Their sudden appearance might be explained by an increase in the phosphate content of Gulf water from phosphate plants near Tampa...
...with a Tory blast prolonged by the boom of the great ship's sirens, which are pitched two octaves below middle A and audible ten miles across the downs. On decks and dock, the handkerchiefs fluttered, bon voyage bouquets were waved. The farewells grew fainter across the widening water...
First outside game Samborski said will be with the Middlesex Club of Water-town Wednesday at 3:30 o'clock at Soldiers Field. A yet unnamed team from the First Naval District will furnish the opposition for the second extra-mural contest on the following Wednesday...