Word: damming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Assuan Dam, Egypt...
...before, this very arid region was believed to have been wholly dependent for water on the Spring of Gihon, near the base of the hill on which the ancient city was built. Pumps were then unknown. Underground canals carried the water to other points, at one of which a dam formed the pool of Siloam. At intervals shafts led down to the canals, through which the inhabitants drew up water in buckets. Elsewhere were inclined tunnels down to the canals, through which men could walk. By them David's men entered the city when they captured it from the Jebusites...
Epinard's dam, Epine Blanche, was bred in this country by Major Belmont...
...oarsmen and cox in crew C were the victims. When above the Brighton bridge,--nearly to the first dam in Watertown,--their shell struck a piece of ice, which punched a small hole amidships. The shell rapidly filled and before the crew could pull ashore, the water had nearly reached the gunwales. The men jumped into the water and abandoned the shell to Coach Stevens in his launch. Theoretically, they ran back to the boathouse, but it is rumored that nine men in dripping rowing togs arrived at Newell shortly after the accident in automobiles...
HELL-BENT FER HEAVEN?Realism taken to the heart of the Kentucky mountains, where a hypercritical religious exhorter seeks to wash out his rival's sins by turning a dam loose...