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...state: "Indians who named the canyon 'Hetch Hetchy' were gone before any white man thought to ask them what the strange words meant...
...muddy streets for as much as $1.50 per gal. "Caramba!" would cry astonished Juan Miguel Aguirre if he could return to San Francisco next week to see one of the world's great water systems begin pouring into the metropolis a colossal stream from a far-away mountain. Canyon. Across the State from San Francisco, in what is now Yosemite National Park, early travelers found a unique canyon, gouged from solid granite by eons of glacial grinding and the swift rush of the Tuolumne River. Indians who named the canyon "Hetch Hetchy" were gone before any white man thought...
From the World's Fair and Niagara Falls sight-seeing Prince Tsunenori Kaya of Japan sped on to the Grand Canyon. There a woman bustled up to the Oriental nobleman to gush: "I'm sure you know the Japanese boy that works for my sister in New York. No? Well, let me see. I think his name is Fu Manchu or something. ... I was certain you would recall the name...
...last quarter of the 19th Century, Central City, Colo, (pop.; 572) perched on the edge of a Rocky Mountain canyon 50 miles west of Denver, was a booming mine town. Bernhardt, Modjeska, Booth and Jefferson played on the stage of its massive Opera House...
Today 555 members of the Class of 1934 forsake the green banks of the Charles to enter the mad scramble for existence in the merciless money-making canyon of Wall Street, in the alphabetic confusion of the capital, in the dry, dusty helds of the Mid West, or in any of the other places where the chances are reported to be fifty to one for sinking relentiessly into the quagmire of failure. For most of these men the days of play, the days when one can follow his own fancy as long as the Committee of Vigilantes at University Hall...