Word: winds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Instead of willing it to the University as was expected, on her death she bequeathed it to the Massachusetts Homeophatic Hospital, which organization administered it for many years. After some time it was bought by a group of Harvard graduates and in 1907 it again changed hands finally to wind up in 1924 in the hands of Samuel Lebowitch, who threatened to tear the building down. C. C. Stillman '98 acquired it in the same year and on his death last summer the executors, in order to settle up his estate decided to sell the building...
...spite of the stiff breeze and the occasional cakes of ice which still remain in the river, shells were launched yesterday for the first time this year from Newell Boat House by the University oarsmen. Because of the wind, which made the water unusually rough and the going hard, only the first few crews out were taken far. Even so the men were well soaked by he icy water and the heavy clothes which are requisites of the early season proved a wise precaution...
...time, John continued his story. "After working around the Yard for a few years, I was given the job of lighting the Yard lights. I used to carry a bottle of bensine and a torch around with me every night, and fill and light each lamp separately. Sometimes the wind would blow them out as fast as I could light them, and then I'd have o start all over again...
Said Captain Van Beek: "It was one hell of a trip. ... We had rough weather from the time we left Cherbourg until we reached Halifax. We had difficulty even getting into Queenstown. The storm reached its climax two days later, when the waves were 60 feet high, and the wind had a velocity of 110 miles an hour. . . . The leak probably was the result of a rivet being worked loose by the laboring of the vessel. It was found there was no danger to the vessel and that only one of the four oil tanks was affected...
...periods swell with the breadth and abundance of the unspoiled continent, and with the vigor of a man who could live on it unsheltered. Yet they do not swell over in boasts, exaggeration or exclamatory wind. They have the sweep of Hermann Melville tempered by quiet judgment and an explorer's interest. When Daniel Boone tells a story he is introduced calmly as "a remarkable individual." A charging black bear is made no more ferocious than it seemed to a man who had slain many specimens and knew they were primarily vegetarians. The devouring of a Negro by wolves...