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...Fundy, Nova Scotia; at Sudbury on the Severn, Eng. .and at Aber-Vrach on the Brittany coast. At all three places there are long, narrow estuaries, into which tides rush with enormous energy. Water turbines, set in dams built across these arms of the sea, will whirl as the tides rush through them; and electricity will be produced. Thus progresses the ageless dream of making the ocean work...
...turned the tide for good. Holabird threw to Kline for 30 yards, and Kline passed to Scott for 22 more. Again the Elis had risen to dash Harvard from the pinnacle. But this time the defense stiffened, and Wadsworth came in to stand on the 30-yard chalk and whirl over the placement kick that spelled victory for the Blue...
...from a bedroom 'hung with soft draperies and filled with cushioned chairs' to a barren room with only a couch for a bed and books for adornment. It was surprising that the World did not know that our family has never gone deeply into the social whirl. When we first came to Washington, I announced that I would continue to do my own cooking (TIME, April 6, 1925), a resolution to which I have not entirely adhered. Furthermore, it is only natural that our daughter Edna should crave to teach. Her uncle, Ray Lyman Wilbur, famed educator...
...upon a time. And now for many weeks the premonitory rumbles of a new fight have muttered through the land. All very courteous, to be sure. The party of the first part, William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey, the party of the second part, James J. Tunney, and around them a whirl of rumors, complaints, offers, conjectures, and lawsuits. Was Dempsey eligible to fight Tunney before he had fought black Harry Wills? The New York State Boxing Commission thought he was; the New York License Committee thought otherwise, refused to issue a license. Tex Rickard, promoter, thought he was; Padraic Mullins, manager...
...ankles, his shirttails waving free, until the book was finished. Kendrick Glasby, star reporter of the local daily, upon whose stalwart young person was concealed a sere little volume in calf called Histoire des Pirates Anglois, with a marker at the tale of fearless Mary Read, entered the gathering whirl of events through another card of Hiltonshurley Moggs, thrown away by a thirsty rumdum to whom Mr. Moggs had given a pint of whiskey instead of a dole. It looked to Kendrick like a good little story. It became an epic. Ruth Pudley's bright-haired presence is even...