Word: drain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opinion, Senator Vandenberg next produced a letter by Harry Slattery, personal assistant to Secretary of the Interior Ickes. Said the letter: "Unless the canal could be effectively sealed throughout many miles of its course, a procedure presenting difficulties that appear to be practically insurmountable, it would inevitably drain enormous quantities of water from the limestone, would lower the water level...
...which belongs to a most swanky hotel in Lower California, and the rhythm of Eddie Duchin, a Massachusetts boy who has made good in the grand style, fail to make the picture particularly exciting. There is an adorable collegiate youngster who is everybody's pal and puts tapioca in drain pipes; he doesn't exactly prepossess...
...floor of the St. Louis Merchants Exchange where he is currently reported making his third fortune after his second bankruptcy, Jesse Livermore Sr. was notified of the shooting. Silently he and his third wife took plane for California. On the second day doctors operated to drain fluid from the boy's pierced lung, still dared not touch the bullet. Uncertain whether he would live, police jailed Mrs. Livermore for attempted murder. Up & down the hospital corridor paced Jesse Livermore Sr., swearing that if his son died he would "spend every cent to see that she gets what is coming...
...York City Board of Examiners answered Miss Freistater's appeal: "Teachers should be acceptable hygienic models for their pupils in matters of weight." Fat people have "relatively higher mortality and morbidity rates than persons of normal weight.'' Too many Rose Freistaters would "constitute a drain on the teachers' pension fund." Convinced that no diet could save Miss Freistater from expanding, sooner or later, to her normal 182, Board Chairman Henry Levy explained: "Teachers must climb stairs, take part in fire drills and be able to handle all real school emergencies. ..." Last week Commissioner Graves fixed...
...beautifully with both the New Deal's agricultural and relief programs. But getting money out of a bureaucracy, Chief Darling soon discovered, was slower than wading through a duck marsh. When he set out to restore swamps he would find some other government agency out to drain them. When he picked some woodsy river side for a game refuge, another agency would be planning to scratch irrigation ditches through...