Word: idealizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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 a board of army engineers to study...
...upon the screen as an up-to-date tearjerker, in which young Bill Peck experiences every childhood misery known to Hollywood, from a cuff on the ear to forced separation from his mongrel dog. When he writes an essay to the effect that Mr. Peck (Thomas Meighan) is an ideal father, he learns that Mr. Peck is not his father. When his Aunt Lily (Dorothy Peterson) and his Cousin Horace (Jackie Searl) arrive in the Peck household, Horace turns out to be a juvenile sneak & pedant. Bill Peck's gang refuses to accept him. Aunt Lily blames Bill...
...Ideally, of course, the Freshman would come to college prepared to take up college work, and would not out of necessity be condemned to a year of polishing. That is, however, an ideal which, although pretty enough, will be long in the coming. The definite imposition of more mature work in the Freshman courses would be a reasonable step in the direction of more stringent entrance requirements, helping all the while to bridge the present gap between the first and second college years...
...flying, the Club will be able to purchase an even better and more high powered ship this year. A modern three place biplane with a 165 horsepower motor is under consideration. This ship, combining a landing speed of 48 mph with a cruising speed of 115 mph, is ideal for club purpose. For the experienced Pilot, it will bring Philadelphia and Montreal within two and a half hour cruising range, while New York will be less than two hours away. Its low landing speed will make it a safe ship for student pilots...
...Auburn Street is getting a surprise in the line of restaurants this week, as the newly renovated Lampoon Restaurant opens for business. Decorated with gaudy murals and boasting the latest in bars, the new establishment possesses the cozy atmosphere ideal for quiet drinking and dining...