Word: dammed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crude, straightforward narrative is contrived by dragging in a hero-tramp with a fraternity pin, two trig scoundrels right out of Horatio Alger, a sleepy attorney who makes small-town small talk, a Chicago magnate who turns out to be a detective. Fists fly, autos are stolen, the big dam gets dynamited, ruining fat Pence. The Hollises ride the flood back to prestige. For variety's sake, the hero's grandfather leaves him a million and a half. Still, it can be read...
Exercise has always been a source of enjoyment to Professor Lanman. When the Hemenway Gymnasium was completed, he spent many hours on the track, counting the laps by reciting the letters of the Hebrew alphabet. Since the building of the Charles River dam, he has rowed more than 7,000 miles in an 11-foot shell. He celebrated his seventieth birthday by a pull to Watertown Dam and back. "Thus," he says, "I have tried to keep up through mature life the bodily activity to which I was used...
...President signed the first appropriation bills to come to him from Congress. The first was the Emergency Deficiency bill carrying $159,000,000, of which $150,000,000 was for tax refunds and $3,500,000 for the completion of Dam No. 2 at Muscle Shoals. The second was the Treasury Post Office Appropriation bill carrying...
...That the "beautiful islands" and other scenic features have been largely destroyed by the flooding of the bottom land following the building of Wilson Dam, and that the mussels are rapidly dying...
...disposition of Muscle Shoals is almost certain to precipitate a new wrangle. The Wilson Dam will be completed next July and at least some temporary plan for disposing of the power must be adopted, since Henry Ford has now withdrawn his bid for the property (TIME...