Word: waters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Therefore, as the vast auditorium, seating 25,000, rose on the ruins of what had been Houston offices and stores, thoughtful citizens planned how to beguile northern Democrats into thinking the Houston climate ideal. They planned: a suggestion to all delegates that Houston fashions will demand linen suits; automatic water coolers as effective as nine melting tons of ice each day (15 Ibs. per delegate per day); a heat-resisting roof; eight large fans delivering hourly 36,000,000 cubic feet of air into the hall...
...swimmer was ever more photographed than Mrs. Lotty Moore Schoemmel, fat water-woman. Last week her sister, Mrs. Grace Moore Shaw, told...
...brought from obscurity by clever publicity. . . . She thought more of a story or a picture than making a swim. I had to spend money on her to make her think she was being pursued by reporters, found it next to impossible to get my publicity-crazed sister into the water to train unless it was to the accompaniment of the click of camera shutters. She was so spoiled. ... I spent money for private photographers. This was necessary as we were so far from Los Angeles that newspapermen came out rarely. ... I want her to pay the $800 I spent...
Coach Brown has decided to have the first crew use the Pocock shell given by John Watt's father in the race on Saturday. The conditions today were poor, with rough water, and a strong south westerly wind. It was very hot on the river...
...result of this different style and the fact that the Yale crew will have its oars in the water longer, to the novice's eyes the Blue boat appears to be a smoother machine. Coach Brown's victory last year, however, demonstrated that a crew using his style could give its wash to a Leader combination over the full four mile course...