Word: deepening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Episcopal Cathedral; Negro ministers were not invited, so as not to heighten tensions and deepen divisions, but were kept informed...
...dynamite blast that geysered water of the Detroit River 150 ft. in the air signaled a new era in Great Lakes shipping last week. It set off a $23 million project that will deepen Amherstburg Channel in the Detroit River near Lake Erie to a minimum depth of 27 ft. (from 21 ft.), enable the waterway to take deep-draft ocean-going ships of up to 10,000 tons and shallow-draft lake ships of 25,000 tons- almost double the present capacity. This is the first part of a five-year dredging program to open the upper Midwest...
Private contractors, working under the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, will carve out a standard 27-ft. waterway in the 130 miles of channels linking the western Great Lakes. This week the Army will open bids for the second stage of the project, the deepening of a channel in the St. Mary's River near the Soo Locks. Later, a work force of 800 to 1,000 will dredge the Straits of Mackinac channel between Lake Michigan and Lake Huron, deepen the channels in the St. Clair River, Lake St. Clair and the Detroit River. Total cost...
...paid by the old company). Another 25% will be set aside for developments and improvements of the canal; this will include the $287 million "ninth program" planned by the old company before seizure, which by 1968 would make the canal two-way for two-thirds of its length and deepen it enough to handle tankers up to 60,000 tons...
...present course structure of the Department. First, the Department might introduce a required half, or perhaps full, course for all prospective classicists, acquainting them with the major and minor classical figures, when they lived, and what, in outline, they had to say. Such a course would not only deepen students' understanding of the text, but would enable them to choose with some degree of understanding which authors they wished to study most intensely. Perhaps a course of this nature could be given as an upper-level social sciences course, open to freshmen considering concentration in classics. As evidenced...