Word: waters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Water, fire, and oil used to be our terrors, now they have become our servants. Even the thunderstorm is being used." Miss Royden then said that man has become a conquering spirit. He will not adapt himself to the world but will govern it. "A change has come, not into the universe or humanity; what has altered is the contact which is being established between the genius of man and the universe...
...Water Power. "New York State is probably the richest State in the Union in natural power sources. . . . If private enterprise, as has been suggested, can borrow the money to develop these great resources, what is there to prevent a public corporation from doing the same thing?" Governor Smith recalled that since 1919 he had been fighting to carry out the state-control water power policy first enunciated (in 1907) by Governor Charles Evans Hughes...
Five days afterward came a sudden thaw. From ice into water turned many a stream-including the Serpentine, that storied streamlet of Hyde Park, London, in which swam Peter Pan. Thus, it became possible to hold last week, the famous 110-yard Serpentine Swimming Race which is sponsored each year by Sir James Matthew Barrie. Last week he stood at one end of the Serpentine under an old, sopping umbrella and awarded to the winner of the race, one H. J. Edwards, the handsome, annually donated Peter...
...Water polo as a sport for undergraduates and graduates may be instituted at Harvard if enough men signify their interest in the formation of a team. All men who have had experience in the game or any other swimmers who want to learn it should report to R. C. Muir, the University swimming instructor, at the Big Tree Swimming Pool. Until after mid-years he will give instruction in the sport to anyone reporting between 2 and 6 o'clock on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays...
Following the mid-year examination period two teams will be organized to play each other and later to meet the teams of nearby swimming clubs. Muir at present coaches swimming and water polo at Boston University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Huntington School...