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Life. Most people know that he was born in Iowa, son of a Quaker blacksmith; that he is chunky, round-faced, about six feet high, with beaverish shoulders and neck and with greying hair, much thinner and less brushed down than it used to be, and with his teeth chewed...
If water were an animate being, its most significant characteristic would be the herd instinct. Man and Mother Earth have conspired to keep water cooped up in bottles, pipes, dams, lakes and oceans. But whenever Man or Mother Earth makes a slip, a Water runs madly to meet fellow Waters...
He taught a little at West Point. Then he went to Cincinnati, helped adjust some harnesses to the Ohio River. Similar river work on the Tennessee (Muscle Shoals Canal) and a canal near Chattanooga helped him make friends with dams, sluices, locks. Through the Spanish War he served as Chief...
On its way, the water piled up with turbulent mountain fury. It swept away rows of houses in single-street hamlets. It knocked out dams and iron bridges, filled up the streets and riverside factories of larger towns; crippled telephones, telegraphs, railways. It took life.
Moreover, the British, despite Egyptian protests, have set up a system of dams and reservoirs designed to serve a gigantic irrigation system in the Sudan, where the British are endeavoring to secure independence from U. S. cotton for their Lancashire mills.