Word: denver
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...menace. It provided a huge irrigation reservoir three miles square. It checked the occasional rampages of Cherry Creek, the historic stream which sluices between concrete embankments through the heart of the city to empty into the South Platte. Ever since the dam was pronounced unsafe by engineers, Denver has feared that its walls might one day crumble and a torrent of water go racing down Cherry Creek into the city. Not long ago the dam sprang a leak. One night last week a smashing summer cloudburst occurred over the reservoir. At 1:20 a. m. the mossy old dam burst...
...miles below, at Parker, Telephone Operator Nettie Driscoll snapped into action. Frantically she plugged the Denver exchange, got through to the police station. A flood was roaring into town, she cried; it was tremendous; it was headed down Cherry Creek toward Denver. "I haven't got time to answer any questions.'' she shouted. "I can hear the roar of the water and I'm getting out of here...
...Educating for World Citizenship" will be the topic of an address by B. M. Cherrington, executive secretary of the Foundation for the Advancement of the Social Sciences at the University of Denver, when he will speak to summer school students Wednesday evening, August 9 at 8 o'clock in Emerson D. The talk is free and open to the public...
...sound educational means to bring the realities of the modern world before the attention of citizens of the west for the purpose of developing an informed public opinion on world affairs. Representatives from the foundation have been sent to all important world conferences and authorities have been brought to Denver. Radio programs have been sponsored and seminars conducted in which business and professional people might study international problems...
Professor Cherrington is Executive Secretary of the Foundation for the Advancement for the Social Sciences, and Head of the Department of Relations at the University of Denver, Colorado. He has made many trips abroad since the War, and in the spring of 1932 attended the Disarmament Conference at Geneva. He spent several weeks research beforehand in the chief capital cities of Europe getting first-hand information regarding the various national attitudes on disarmament. Professor Cherrington has lectured at John Hopkins University, Brookings Institution, the University of Chicago, and at various League of Nations Association functions. In December...