Word: contents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...water that is coming down the Colorado River at the present time and which will come down all the time, has a mud content of from 5% to 8% and that the lake which will be formed back of the dam, to be built, will fill up with mud and silt and make same a mud lake within ten years...
...silt pocket. Estimates of what the annual silt deposit will be vary from 80,000 to 250,000 acre-feet, but Government engineers opine that the total deposit in 50 years will not exceed 3.000.000 acre-feet. Reader Stewart's friend's figures for the silt content of the Colorado River look high. Government observations at Yuma, Ariz, noted .48% silt...
...sacrosanct, holy of holies the Harvard Yard he espied that sight so common to Mondays the world over. A day late to be sure, but there it was lines and lines of clothes hung out to dry. Wooden clothespins. Laundry by bales. And at last his heart was content. His home was some thing more than a state of mind at last...
...disclosing the courses which will be offered next September, Professor Glueck said. "The project, of course is experimental: we must experiment with the content of the curriculum the type of men selected, and with the positions in which they are placed. We shall therefore keep the applicants down to a small number of specially qualified...
...palliation-the rewards are stupendous in fame and wealth. For the wealth they care little. Dr. Coffey's professional income is more than $50,000 yearly, from the Southern Pacific, the Dollar Line, and private surgery. Dr. Humber "makes a living." His wife Agnes, a War nurse, is content. Say they: let the Better Health Foundations in New York and California get the royalties for the manufacture of Coffey-Humber extract. (They patented the process of extraction last year, before they knew exactly what they had, primarily to keep the drug away from quacks.) But for fame...