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Word: colorado (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...please advise your Sports Editor to look up the record of Earl ("Dutch") Clark, quarterback of Colorado College (Colorado Springs) of the Rocky Mountain Conference. Watch him, playing on the small College of about 500 students, make at least honorable mention for All American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 31, 1928 | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

Having damned legislation in the Senate for two sessions past, the Swing-Johnson bill to build the world's hugest dam in Black Canyon on the Colorado River, was last week passed by the Senate, 64 to 11. Passed by the House last spring, the measure now went to conference to have House-Senate differences composed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Dam Passed | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

Another difference was the distribution of water. The Colorado drains seven States -Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, California. The first four, the Upper Tier, have long been agreed on their shares of the water. The Lower Tier-Nevada, Arizona, California -have long quarreled about how to divide the 7,500,000 acre-feet that they will get between them. Nevada was satisfied with 300,000 acre feet; California wanted 4,600,000, Arizona 3,000.000. After sharp remarks between California's whitecrested Johnson and Arizona's long-embattled Ashurst and Hayden, the Senate voted Nevada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Dam Passed | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

...expenditure, $25,000,000 is to be spent protecting the sub-sea-level Imperial Valley of California from the Colorado's periodic floods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Dam Passed | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

...Colorado College last week, all formal social activities except the Junior Promenade were suspended because of student drinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: College Comics | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

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