Word: damming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inhabitants are blooded stock. Subscribers to this school of thought will thoroughly enjoy The Spoilers. It is concerned with the Alaskan gold rush and the love of a dance-hall girl. There is much hard riding, hard fighting, hard language. A crooked faro dealer and a good job in dam dynamiting add final fury to the flames of melodrama. Milton Sills plays the hero with desperate determination. There is much sincere savagery distributed among the several villains, while Anna Q. Nilsson, with her hardened, twisting mouth, is good as the dance-hall girl...
...accord as to the new Senator's dialect. He said for himself: "I ain't ignorant and a lot of this stuff that you read in the papers making me say things I didn't is all bunk. ... I didn't say that I didn't give a dam about books. I mean, I didn't say it that way. Some books ain't worth readin' and some are. I ain't got much time for 'em, but I would read 'em if I had time to read 'em.'' As for his favorite author, he declared: "I ain't going...
...with a CRIMSON reporter. Mr. Hale, who is chief engineer of a corporation which controls and plans to develop about 50 power sites in New York and New England, has been for the last three years in charge of the construction on the upper Hudson River of a large dam which will supply power to be used principally by the International Paper Company...
PRINCETON, N. J., May 4.--Princeton, Navy, and Harvard crews all had short work-outs on Lake Carnegle today. The Harvard University and Freshman eights went out separately at noon, rowed down to the dam and then paddled over the course at a stroke of 26. The two crews rowed again this afternoon, going as far as the dam and practicing short racing starts. Water very calm and weather...
...TIGER'S CLAW.-Among the difficulties through which Jack Holt, American engineer in India, has to wend his unassuming way are a tiger, a half-caste wife, a sweetheart from back home and a lot of "thugs." A dam is well dynamited. The half-caste proves her mettle as a lover...