Word: width
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...main line of the Pennsylvania Railroad twenty miles north of Baltimore on a peninsula eight miles long and about two miles wide. This territory known as Gunpowder Neck, jutts out into Chespeake Bay between the mouths of the Gunpowder and Bush Rivers. The railroad cuts across the entire width of the neck forming the northern boundary of the Arsenal. On all other sides the Arsenal is surrounded by water, affording an excellent opportunity for boating, swimming, and fishing. In addition there are tennis courts, a baseball diamond, and a half mile cinder track, which will be used by the students...
...barrier. The Wellend Canal, now nearing completion, will remove the barrier at Niagara Falls. From Lake Ontario to Montreal is a distance of 182 miles. Between Lake Ontario and Gallop Island, a distance of 68 miles, there is now a channel more than 30 feet deep with a minimum width of 500 feet. Therefore, there is only a distance of 114 miles involved in the improvement. But in this 114 miles, there is now at different points about 68 miles of navigable water, leaving about 46 miles constituting the barrier now existing. The barrier consists of rapids at various points...
...shell has been rigged under the direction of Dr. Howe and the Graduate Committee on Rigging and has been carefully fitted to the individual oarsmen. The specifications of the shell are as follows: 61 1-2 feet in length; 10 1-2 inches in depth; 23 inches in width...
...Howe and Coach Bert Haines yesterday afternoon put their upper yearling crews through a series of four races. Owing to the heavy weather prevailing in the basin, it was decided to lay the course over the half-mile stretch near the Stadium, and in conformance with the narrower width the eights were split up in to groups...
...Junior Class, and the one whose design is chosen will become a member of the Junior Dance Committee. The design must be worked out in two simple colors, and its size as it will appear on the program will be about four inches in height and three inches in width. Drawings may be of any size as long as they are in these general proportions and can be reduced to the above size...