Word: dams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stubborn facts are jutting out of an atmosphere long wrapped in mystery. Many men leave their Houses voluntarily because they find them no more attractive than boarding-houses, and equally devoid of friends. Despite heroic efforts, the Committee which governs the placing of Freshmen has found it impossible to dam up entirely a natural and preferable course of events. A few of the Houses are emerging with definite personalities. They collect scholars, or athletes, they give characteristic plays and have their own distinctive inner societies. These are the trimmings which make the House. Without them a House is just...
Fourth and final question was whether the Government had the right to buy transmission lines to take power from its legal dams to market. Said Chief Justice Hughes: "The question here is simply as to the disposal of that energy, and the Government rightly conceded at the bar in substance that it was without constitutional authority to acquire or dispose of such energy except as it comes into being in the operation of works constructed in the exercise of some power delegated to the United States. . . . The Government is not using the water power at Wilson Dam to establish...
...Government is disposing of the energy itself, which simply is the mechanical energy, incidental to falling water at the dam, converted into the electric energy which is susceptible of transmission...
Lawyers, pondering the decision, foresaw that this enthusiasm might assume too much. Only the Wilson Dam had been declared legal. Some other dam might be found otherwise. The Court did not pass on the right of the Government to retail electricity, only to take the necessary steps to get rid of a byproduct. Nor did the Court pass on the right of the Government to distribute its power for social purposes in a wider area than would constitute a "reasonable market." However, TVA men had a right to rejoice: They had been freed of a major legal threat, could accomplish...
...milk and 700 Ib. of butterfat. Five have topped 30,000 Ib. of milk, and seven have records of more than 1,000 Ib. of butterfat. Average for U. S. cows is about 5,000 Ib. of milk, 200 Ib. of butter. Daisy's dam was bought by a Yokohama breeder named Y. Habu, who took her to Japan. During the twelve-month test period, Daisy gained some 75 Ib., now weighs a little more than 1,700 Ib. Kept in a large box stall, she was carefully guarded against undue excitement. She consumed more than 21 tons...