Word: dams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...free public lecture on "Structural Problems of Boulder Dam" will be given by Harold M. Westergaard, professor of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, University of Illinois, tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock in Pierce Hall...
Professor Westergaard, a native of Denmark, educated in Denmark and Germany, has been a structural engineer in Denmark, Germany, England, and the United States. He was consulting engineer on Boulder Dam, and has been a special analyst for the U. S. Bureau of Public Roads and the Engineering Foundation...
...Chinese name. His Mongol name is Dam-chukdangrub...
...isolated case, we should merely have to reprove the Senate for letting the executive exceed his authority. But there are other examples of this kind of forced appropriation, and the appropriating power of Congress is in grave danger. Roosevelt plays the same game with the Passamaquoddy project, the Gila Dam, and the Florida ship canal. It is quite clear that Congress is expected to finish whatever the President begins, regardless of whether or not it was worth while in the first place...
...that time, Top Row's chief claim upon the attention of the turf world had been his name. His sire was Peanuts, his dam Too High. The combination had suggested to his owner, Mrs. W. Plunket Stewart, the last row of seats in the peanut gallery. As a racehorse, Top Row had appeared mainly in "claiming" races- minor events for mediocre horses in which each entry is for sale at a specified price, for which he can be claimed by anyone who wants him. In these his efforts had been so undistinguished that Mr. Baroni...