Word: ditches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...canal cuts into the limestone south of Palatka to the Gulf, the bottom of the canal will be over 30 ft. below sea level. Thus the question, important to all of Florida south of the canal, arises: What is to prevent the canal from acting as a drainage ditch to carry off water to a depth of 70 ft. below the present water table? Army engineers confidently say they will plug up the leaks, prevent the drainage, not lower the water except in wells close to the canal. Florida's state geologist declared that he could...
...voice. The whites of 44 eyes shone in the fire glare as they looked back into a solid wall of flames. Two dark figures staggered back, lurched through the door, fell on the road outside, afire from head to foot. Two white guards rolled them into the snow-filled ditch to put them out. Then the drum of gasoline went up. . . . When a prison official arrived on the scene, he wired the State Prison at Kilby to ship 20 coffins to Scottsboro...
Most appealing to moderns is the great King Oguola, traditionally fourth king of the Bini. Since his people were rich and peaceable and his slaves had little to do, he sent 20,000 of them into the forest to dig a ditch about 40 feet wide, 20 feet deep. "Not for war," explained King Oguola. "But when I die and people say 'Who was Oguola?' they will hear 'he was the King that dug the Big Ditch...
...told by Miss Nellie Boyes, Miss Lillian Rose Harding and Miss Lillian Harrie, all eminently respectable and severely bruised. "I asked him why he hit me-unable to believe my senses," testified Mrs. Series. "He replied: 'Why shouldn't I?' Then he scrambled down to the ditch in which I sat and punched me again. He said as he did so: 'Everybody knows that a bicycle on the road is more nuisance than the biggest motor lorry.' Then he hit me again and I seemed to go to sleep." Several women were too quick...
...Last week the Suez Canal management announced that its gigantic suction dredgers had completed the job of deepening the 100-mi, long ditch through the shifting sand of the Sinai Desert from 33 to 34 ft., to oblige primarily big Australian freighters, incidentally the British Navy. *Wafd means "delegation." The party takes its name from the delegation led by Zaghlul Pasha to Paris in 1919 to voice Egyptian Nationalist aspirations at the Peace Conference...