Word: backwash
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...crushed by circumstances beyond his control, came as the result of a five-month inquest into the books of Insull Utility Investments, Middle West Utilities and Mississippi Valley Utilities by Arthur Andersen & Co.. accountants. In addition to juggled income statements and the loan to Martin Insull, the backwash included the following facts...
Undeterred by the War Department's attitude, Mr. Putnam returned to New York, prepared to issue his volume of War photographs next week.* Among its 89 grisly pictures is a sprinkling of ironic War verse. Soldiers are shown in all the contorted agonies of death. War's backwash is represented by deserter executions, famine victims, mutilations, cripples. Only "atrocity pictures" are excluded...
...suspensions, Mt. Holyoke said officially: "The detection of infringement of college regulations was not brought about by detectives, but came through report by the culprits themselves to the college judicial board. There have been no extra fire drills**. . . President Woolley says . . . 'The college is now suffering the backwash of lawlessness which prevails, frequently unchecked, in the country at large...
Farewell. Flying a small pursuit plane at Fort Stotsenburg, P. I., Lieut. Marvin M. Burnside chased after a great twin-motored bomber which had just taken off, to wave "goodbye" to its pilot, his close friend Lieut. Marion Huggins. He had nearly overtaken the bomber when suddenly the backwash of its propellers hit the little plane, flung it about like a leaf, dashed it to the ground. Unaware of the occurrence, Lieut. Huggins flew on to Nichols Field, Manila, there learned that his friend was dead...
...site. 4) Blast out of solid rock in the canyon walls four tunnels 50 ft. in diameter to divert temporarily the Colorado's flow 4.000 ft. around the dam site. 5) Erect a temporary dam upstream to turn the river into the tunnels and another downstream to stop backwash. Only then will the bed of the Colorado be laid bare and dry to receive the foundation, 600 ft. thick, of Hoover Dam. Power to operate all machinery must be led in from 200 miles away in California...