Word: damming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Beaver Dam, Wis., a family of 40 had a reunion, celebrated by nibbling a 100-year-old egg brought from China which had mystic hieroglyphs on its shell...
...Bridgewater, Somersetshire, 30 houses collapsed. On Bridgewater dam armed sentries tramped in gleaming raincoats to stop enraged farmers from dynamiting the dyke that was flooding their fields...
...score, squirmed and passed for another, and with three tacklers hanging on him in the last period took a kick to where his side could use it. Southern California 27, Washington State 7. Half a dozen admirals and the entire corps of Annapolis midshipmen saw the Navy line dam Dartmouth and the Navy backfield use a short forward pass-Gannon to Kirn-to upset the odds, 13-6. Cornell's off-tackle smash had Penn in trouble, but not long. Gentle and Masters threw passes to each other like basketball forwards. Masters and Stevens punted 65 yards with...
Mayor Newbegin of Tacoma was glad he remembered that fact because Tacoma (pop. 110.000 ) badly needed light, badly needed power. Cushman Dam which supplies water for the city-owned plant was dangerously low. Where four inches of rain had fallen last October, this October fell less than one inch. Abandoned private steam plants were prepared for operation. Housewives had to be told to cut down on current. Only every other street light burned at night. Electrical signs were shut off. The lights on the tower of the city hall went dark for the first time in 30 years...
...revenge came in 1926 when he ousted from a Senate seat William Morgan Butler, chairman of the Republican National Committee, strongly-endorsed Coolidge friend. Last year he was again reelected, helping materially to carry Massachusetts for Nominee Smith. He voted for Tax Reduction (1928), Flood Control (1928), Boulder Dam (1928), the Cruiser Construction Bill (1929), Radio Control (1928) and Reapportionment (1929). He voted against Farm Relief (1927, 1928, 1929) and the Jones (increased Prohibition penalties) Law (1929). He votes Wet, drinks Wet. Legislative Hobbies: War veteran aid, protective labor measures, U. S. merchant marine, a high tariff for Massachusetts industries...