Word: damming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Subscriber Anderson mistakes the etymology and hence the spelling of the expression: "don't give a dam." The dam, small Indian coin, was put into this expression by British Army officers, who made the phrase current when they returned home from India. In etymology, it is similar to the expression: "don't give a continental...
...headwaters of U. S. population arose in 1924. The dam that holds them held tighter than before. Last week, the Census Bureau reported an increase in the birth rate of 2% (to 22.5 per 1,000) ; the death rate fell...
...disports himself as the watery youth whose mother makes him take tonics. He is snatched from her protecting clutches by circumstance and thrust into the midst of a dance hall and ranch-grabbing plot over the Mexican border. Fifty or 60 fights and a dynamited dam suffice to make...
...true business man can understand it. Nedell makes a speech in which he offers to reform, rebuild, and repopulate the town. One can't help wondering if it was quite right of him to want to do all these things. As part of his agreement he puts forward a dam project with the aid of imaginary telephone conversations with Wall Street, and even succeeds in sending the befuddled owner of the car, who wanders in unexpectedly from Providence, rolling home...
...University wrestling team were also instrumental in enabling the men to get in good shape before mild weather permitted them to take to the water. Practice under the eyes of Dr. Spaeth and Assistant Coach Charles Logo has consisted mainly of easy rows, and short sprints down to the Dam at the end of the Lake. As yet no races between the two Varsities have been in order...