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...than half a century ago visionary San Franciscans, irked by the scarcity of their water supply, began to talk of a Hetch Hetchy reservoir. From the wild and inaccessible canyon 3,500 ft. above sea level, water would need no pumping on its course to the city. The knife-gash gorge at its outlet was ideal for damming. Thirty-three years ago this week San Francisco asked the U. S. Department of the Interior for permission to build in Yosemite Park. For a decade successive Secretaries of the Interior backed and filled on the Hetch Hetchy project. President Taft appointed...
...When Clark Lyman entered Mendota's hospital on Feb. 14, 1931 he was in good physical condition. Two weeks later he died, officially of bronchial pneumonia. But in the interval his wife and half-brother had seen him bound hand & foot, with two teeth knocked out, a gash over his eye, a lump on his chest and so badly bruised that he "looked like a raw piece of meat all over...
Proctor and Herbert S. Sise '34 led a group of varsity ski team candidates last weekend over the new trail on North Uncanoonuo in Southern New Hampshire. He tried the candidates out on "Death Corner," a wide gash in the mountainside where the trail has a twist with reverse banking at the foot of a steep descent. Proctor had them practice stem and pure Christiana turns before they ended the day by a run in a blinding snow storm...
...long grey-blue knife gash amid the heathery Highlands of Northern Scotland is Loch Ness. Beside it rears the ruined pile of ancient Castle Urquhart. Nearest town of any size is Inverness, seven miles away. All around is the immemorial home of kelpies, bogles, Warlocks, White Ladies...
...company's business, Captain Francis acted promptly, jettisoned all the offensive gewgaws-nearly 1,000. As they plopped into the ocean Mr. Untermyer sat down to his dinner content. Later he went to his cabin, slipped on the edge of his pink tiled bathtub, cut a deep gash over his left...