Word: waters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pier of the Albany Yacht Club, the river's grey-green surface had been transformed into dirty, bubbly whipped cream. A fleet of 133 little launches, each with an outboard motor attached, was milling about, racing its engines, darting hither and yon like a swarm of noisy water beetles. Finally Commodore William B. Eldridge appeared on the balcony of the Yacht Club building. The boats lined up under the railroad bridge. The Commodore fired a pistol. With a shrill spattering sound the boats streaked down the Hudson. As each passed the balcony its time was marked, because the Hudson...
...coaching launches, the "John Harvard" and the "Veritas" drew up at the float of the Newell boathouse yesterday afternoon, completing a trip which started two weeks ago when the two boats left Greenport, Long Island. They were delayed until yesterday at Monument Beach by the rough water conditions in Massachusetts Bay caused by the recent storms...
...which is to be presented at Washington during the month of May, has under way an experimental and theoretical investigation of signalling by sound. This work is being done in connection with the determination of the efficiency of fog horns, and in reference to the transmission of sounds under water. Such is the importance of this work that eight officers of the U. S. Navy are at present stationed at the Cruft Laboratory to study communication engineering...
...Elephants are the hardest of all game to photograph," said Mr. Johnson. "The herds which we generally see are limited to 150 animals, although it is reported that during the dry season vast herds of 2,000 or more travel from one water-hole to another. But they stampede so readily that we have to trail them for months before coming close enough to photograph...
...doing things in a big way - Samuel Insull, public utility pope of Chicago. His operations centred at first in Maine, where securities of his Central Maine Power & Light have become popular legal tender and his henchmen, Walter S. Wyman and Guy P. Gannett, are ruling powers. Mr. Wyman is Water Power. Mr. Gannett, a cousin of Chain-Publisher Frank Gannett of Rochester, Syracuse, Brooklyn, Hartford, Albany, Utica, Elmira, Newburgh-Beacon (N. Y.), Plainfield (N. J.), Ithaca, Olean (N.Y.), Ogdensburg (N. Y.), is Power of the Press. His monthly Comfort reaches 1,226,330 homes. His dailies in Portland (the Press...