Word: waters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dane named Jefferson, whom the Governor addressed now and then to ease his mind. Mrs. Emily Smith Warner (eldest daughter) and her husband were there, too. Also Walter Smith (youngest son), Mrs. Belle Moskowitz (chief publicist) and her husband; also secretaries, friends, newsgatherers. The Governor chewed long cigars, drank water frequently. His face was redder than usual. His hands moved constantly, though not fidgeting...
...Appropriately, the department noted the prevalence of beavers in the West. Beavers, like Beavermen, are natural engineers. Unlike Beavermen, they eat water lilies, taste like pork, have trowel-like, scaly tails...
Forced to land in the wilds, what will the prudent aviator rejoice if he has remembered, regret if he has forgotten? Pilot George H. Buck of Idaho, last week, prepared a list. Useful cargo: i carrier pigeon, i loaf of bread, i big knife, i canteen of water, i ham, i shotgun, i six-shooter, i axe, i motor generator to supply light...
...Thames. Harvard had the heaviest crew in 15 years. It was so heavy that the shell sat low in the water, so heavy, Bostonian, assured it was that young men with crimson feathers in their hats went through the observation trains at New London looking for bets and getting them. At 7 o'clock on a cloudy evening below Gales Ferry the two boats went away. Harvard was in front for the first 50 yards and never after that. Past the flags that marked the first mile, past the cluster of brick buildings at the submarine base, Yale moved...
...Illinois Central and the Redwood Line, manufacturers could ship steel from Chicago to New Orleans (912 miles) as cheaply as from Buffalo to New York (390 miles). "Unduly preferential," they cried, technically. They explained: Eastern railroads should serve Eastern shippers, benefiting by short rail hauls to the Atlantic, low water rates to the Pacific. Cutthroat reductions by the I.C.R.R. will divert traffic to Chicago, thence to New Orleans, thence by the Redwood Line to the coast...