Word: culvert
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...after and my dishes are at the sink. "Don't think I'll go, the children would not take their naps this afternoon," says the Mrs. The Chewy goes at the second turn of the starter and I'm out over the cattle guard and the culvert over the first irrigation ditch. Over a second, third and fourth, all graded as the ditch beds are above the valley here. Now to step on it. First mile gone, slow down for another grade culvert, the second mile nearly a straightaway. Indian wagon raising an infernal dust is soon...
Commonly accepted report was that a Boettcher friend had tossed $60,000 ransom across a railroad culvert near Denver. Banker-Father Claude K. Boettcher refused to admit that the ransom had been paid, though he did say that "all obligations were fulfilled...
...them. Early in the afternoon it began raining. Creek beds that had been white and dry all summer became lashing rivers. Oldtimers in the small towns along the canyon sensed high-water and set out for high ground. Sixty tramps on a freight train which had sided on a culvert grew restive as the sound of rushing water grew into a mighty roar. When the flood broke, a 45-ft. wall of water tore down the creek bed. Houses were knocked topsy-turvy by great boulders, signals were cracked from their bases. The sided train was lifted from the tracks...
Farmer George Bryant of Shelbyville. Ky. saw his hunting dog run under a culvert, heard it bark loudly. Following, he found five steel safe deposit boxes containing $3,200 in bonds, stolen last month from a bank in Leipsic...
Some women riding to hounds in Geneseo, N. Y., came to a place where, because no fox will go where there is iron, they could gain on the beast by taking a cut of a mile along the railroad tracks. They had ridden into a deep culvert with sides too steep for the horses to vault when suddenly the rails began to tremble, a train thundered round a curve a few hundred yards behind them, and they were called upon to decide a delicate conflict between morality and sportsmanship. Morally, they were obligated to save their own lives if they...