Word: bayous
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...Senate finally got farm relief out of the way (see FARMERS), only to see rivers-and-harbors swell to proportions more formidable than ever. The bill provided approximately a $50,000,000 mass of miscellaneous moneys for dredging creeks, bayous, inlets in many states; building bridges; buying canals; and most important of all, for deepening the Illinois River near Chicago to let lake steamers pass down to the Mississippi and Gulf of Mexico. The language of the bill had the effect of legalizing previous diversions of Great Lakes water by Chicago through its drainage canal out of Lake Michigan...
...holes must be orthodox, but if in order to ascertain their size, the cheese must be cut, an other calamity befalls, the cheese is spoiled. Here it is that Science shows herself truly worthy. The formidable X ray, already victor in a thousand fields, provides the quaking cheese bayous with the solution. A photograph was taken and eureka, "the holes developed on the negative as distinct dark spots". What could be more magnificent...
...whole months Grant strained every nerve to find or make a water passage to out-flank Haines's Bluff, or get the transports past the batteries. It was all in vain. Canals were cut; bayous explored; passages forced through countless narrow channels; but to no purpose. The North was out of patience; the people clamored for Grant's removal...