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Word: cobscook (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cooper plan transcends such feeble efforts as far as the locomotive outclassed the wheelbarrow. It calls for great sea walls, with water gates to shut the 100 sq. mi. of Passamaquoddy Bay into an upper pool. Other walls would immure Cobscook, the lower bay, 50 sq. mi. more. Across the inlet between the two pools thus formed, from Eastport* (island) to the Maine mainland, a dam and power house would be built. Operation would be as follows: on a rising tide, the gates to the upper pool would be opened to admit the sea. At flood, the gates would close...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tide-Harnesser | 8/31/1925 | See Source »

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