Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would lower the lake levels ruinously. Even Canada has glowered. They have accused Chicago of having lowered the levels ruinously already with her sewage disposal canal and added insult to injury by declaring that Chicago sewage pollutes the entire Great Lakes system (excepting Lake Superior). Lately, with the Chicago-Gulf project pending in the Senate, the Chicago Tribune, has served its public by returning the insult, showing that Detroit "spews," that Toledo "defiles," that Cleveland pollutes and lies about it, that Erie, Buffalo and Toronto foster typhoid...
...student bodies. Harvard, conscious of a maturer point of view, regards Princeton a little patronizingly. Princeton, conscious of the strength that comes from her greater emotional solidarity, greets Harvard with the spirit of the victor. It will take a graduate engineer in Fatherly love to bridge that gulf. Judge...
...Drainage Canal is necessary to the sanitary disposal of Chicago sewage; 2) That the stopping of the diversion would have little effect on the water-level of the Great Lakes; 3) That the Drainage Canal is a vital link in development of a St Lawrence-Great Lakes-Mississippi-Gulf of Mexico waterway which will be a commercial asset to both the U. S. and Canada...
...City Southern and of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas (the "Katy") and the controlling interest of the St. Louis & Southwestern (the "Cotton Belt"), he is seeking to merge these lines, with approval of the I. C. C., into a southwestern Loree system which will strap the Great Lakes to the Gulf...
...Gulf of Mexico fishermen agree that schools of porpoises leaping usually indicate approaching heavy weather. Whether this is due to atmospheric conditions or to marine conditions, who can say? * Doubtless named after the famed fish pompano, southern epicures' delight and conceded one of the world's tastiest marine morsels...