Word: damming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crowd will be "goin" like a mill dam...
...novel laboratory has been created in the Canal Zone. When the Canal was built, Gatun Dam was erected across the valley of the Chagres River. The result was the creation of not only a deep-water channel from the Gatun locks to Gaillard Cut, but also a great lake, some 164 square miles in extent, which developed from the drowning of the lands on both sides of the main channel. This body of water is known as Gatun Lake...
...When the dam was completed and the waters of the Chagres backed up, flooding the valley, the higher eminences of the foothills of the Cordilleran mountain chain rose out of the waters as islands. While the waters were rising, the animal life of the tropical valley took refuge on the higher ground on the shores and islands. On the latter this life is now isolated. Naturally, a wide variety of life is collected on some of these small islands...
Much water, however, has gone over the dam since the Metchnikoff table of elementary substances was formulated as the axiomatic basis of modern chemistry. Under certain rays, supposedly elemental substances have broken down into two or more other elements. Now comes the story that Professor Miethe of the Berlin Technical High School has succeeded in obtaining gold artificially by breaking down mercury into other substances...
...Roosevelt Dam, Arizona...