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Soon the Columbia developed engine trouble, was forced to glide down into a field gashed by a deep ditch. The ditch fouled the landing gear, tripped the plane which then buried its nose in the ground, its engine wrecked, its wings twisted. Miraculously, no one was injured...
...rinks marked off on a 40-yard square green in an effort to hit the "jack" or to rest as near it as possible. Following players, up to the number of four, tried also to hit the jack, or to knock opponents' bowls into the ditch which surrounds the green. At the end of a round, the side which had bowl or bowls nearest the jack was counted winner...
...everyone knows, these two bills fought each other to death. The Administration, being convinced that the McNary-Haugen bill was radical & dangerous, fought it to the last ditch where President Coolidge killed it with his veto, last winter (TIME, March...
...spillway is a ditch dug alongside and parallel to a river so that when the river overflows the excess water will be taken off by the spillway. The Mississippi and would become a natural spillway to the Atchafalaya Rivers run roughly parallel through Louisiana, so that by establishing a channel between them the Atchafalaya Mississippi...
...Panama Canal, of which President Taft named him the "father" for his. services as its presiding genius from 1905 to 1907. And there was good reason for Mr. Stevens to talk about the Panama Canal. Last winter he quietly went down to Panama to see how the big ditch looked after 20 years. His talk was his first publication of his impressions, which were, chiefly, that a $500,000,000 sea-level canal through Nicaragua, as some propose, will not be needed to supplement the Panama Canal, because: 1) water shortage in the Panama locks, which might threaten...