Word: graveled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...causeways); ''bewildering" (the endless exhibits, the jostling crowds); "disorderly" (the hodge-podge of scientific displays and Coney Island peep-shows); "interesting & instructive" (the industrial exhibits, the historical displays; but, even more so, the naive, gum-chewing, beer-swigging crowds); "wearying" (the 82 miles of exhibits, the hard gravel walks, the heat); "exasperating" (the incessant cries of "'Yeah, Folks!" "Step this way folks." "Hot dawgs, hot dawgs!" "Mister, have you tried our health drink?"); "amusing" (the comments of the crowd); "salacious" (the sideshows of the Midway); "tame and unoriginal'' (the same shows...
...girl in the school. Some other Friends' parents: Newton D. Baker, Herbert Hoover, President Raymond Allen Pearson of the University of Maryland. Representative Samuel Billingsley Hill of Washington. Mr. Justice George Sutherland has a grandson at Friends'. Charles Augustus Lindbergh used to play in the gravel yard of the schoolhouse on I Street and Archibald Roosevelt, Princess Chichibu of Japan and Minister to China Nelson Trusler Johnson all went there...
...Station consists of an excavation in solid rock 22 feet square, with the floor 15 feet beneath the earth's surface and the roof covered with six feet of rock and gravel. It is completely lined with concrete walls two feet thick, and the delicate recording instrument will be placed on concrete piers 30 Inches high, and five feet wide. This insulation will insure almost perfect recording of earthquakes, as the station will be entirely free from traffic disturbances, temperature changes, and all other interference...
...University has moved up to an A-1 rating. Its enrollment has been increased from 1,800 to 5,000. Louisianans can now attend it for as little as $20 per month. Senator Long is responsible for 2,500 mi. of new paved roads, 6,000 mi. of new gravel roads. He built the $5,000,000 State Capitol, the $150,000 executive mansion, the State University's $1,500,000 School of Medicine at New Orleans. Thanks to him, twelve new bridges are about to span Louisiana rivers; the contract for a Mississippi bridge at New Orleans has been...
...Borings were taken at 500 foot intervals each way over the entire extent of the basin to determine the character of the river bed and the depths of the various strata. In general, the bottom consists of a layer of mud and silt, under which is a layer of gravel, and below this is clay or hard pan. A curious thing that was made apparent, after dredging began, was that in sections of the basin there are large beds of oyster shells where the river flowed before the dam was constructed in 1908. Officials in charge expressed the opinion that...