Word: waters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Unser Gott." A woman, the last of the 1,400 passengers, waving her hand kerchief to someone on shore as if she had been going on a long journey, ran up the gangplank. There was a jangle of bells, a fountain of spray as the paddle wheels rolled the water; all the passengers cheered and laughed when the General Slocum backed into the East River...
...students who had come from Bucharest and Jassy to hold a Nationalist congress at Oradia Mare, later claimed that the riots started when two Jewish butchers poured a caldron of boiling water on the heads of student marchers. This tale, perhaps true, was the only excuse offered last week, for the following student reprisals...
...suit be dismissed, he said, for Illinois had done nothing illegal. The water diversion permit, which expires at the end of 1929, was properly issued by the Secretary of War who had been properly empowered by Congress, with which lies ultimate authority over national domain and waterways. Should Illinois overstep her legal permit, let the Great Lakes States then sue again. Before the permit expires and necessitates a fight in Congress, let Chicago perfect its water-purification so that diversion can be dispensed with; or let weirs be built in the Niagara and St. Glair Rivers to compensate the lake...
...leaders on the very train which carried his brother's coffin out to the Bratiano estate at Florica for burial. Arrived there, the harassed politicians assumed somber mourning faces, then followed the coffin and the royal family through immense crowds of somberly clad peasants, some of whom sprinkled holy water on the slowly passing bier...
High winds made forward passing difficult, and pools of water were treacherous to the players footing...