Word: tide
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...advantage of positions lies considerably with '95, since their course follows the channel where the tide runs strongest...
Yesterday the 'varsity crew went back to its barge after a week in the shell. A slight accident delayed the crew for a short time as they were starting off for the afternoon row. The tide was low and in launching the barge a rock was struck, knocking a hole in the bottom. This was soon patched up. The makeup of the crew was considerably changed on account of the absence of a number of men. Captain Bullard watched the crew from the launch. He has a lame arm and will probably not row for several days. Hollister and Perkins...
...interests, brought about by this close association of the colonies, made possible a successful revolution against the mother-country. As the pressure increased within this narrow strip of land, emigration pushed out through the passes of the Appalachians. The Kentucky Blue Grass country was then developed and as the tide flowed across the Mississippi, the great prairies of the west were taken up, until the Bad Lands at the base of the Rocky Mountains checked the emigrants. At this point, the difficulty of advance was so great that it was easier to go around the Horn to San Francisco than...
...March 10.The warm weather of the past few days has sufficiently cleared the harbor of ice to permit the crews to row there Friday afternoon for the first time this year. The men went out in one of the old barges, but the flood ice, coming in with the tide, obliged them to return after an hour. The crew was coached by Armstrong and rowed as follows: Stroke, Miller; 7, Treadway; 6, Dater; 5, Cross; 4, Longacre; 3, Beard; 2, Holcomb; bow, Wheelwright. Fourteen men will go to the training table on March 15, who are, in addition to those...
...scheme of General Booth is scientific. - (a) Rebuilds character. - (b) Takes away temptation. - (c) Protects the community by - (1) Isolating the unfit. - (d) Decreases vagrancy: Quart. Jour. Econ. V, 14. - (e) Reverses the tide from cities. - (f) Discriminates between the deserving and undeserving. - (g) Diminishes promiscuous charity...