Word: keokuk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fundy into narrow St. John's River so fast that a waterfall pours up-stream-a plan later half realized in the unfinished $36,000,000 Passamaquoddy power project; of a heart attack; in Boston. With his brother, the late Hugh Lincoln Cooper, he helped plan the Keokuk, Iowa dam across the Mississippi, Wilson Dam, Muscle Shoals power project...
...repast, his taste is unique and, therefore, news. But is TIME sure of its potatoes? . . . TIME generalizes, as it is sometimes wont to do, as to "limp handshake of most Austrians." Let me assure TIME that limply shaking hands is equally bad form in Vienna as it is in Keokuk, Iowa. An Edelweiss to you for "Eve of Renewal," barring minor details, the best write-up of contemporary Austrian conditions I have seen. R. H. STIEPOCK...
...schools. He said that those boys who did not wish to join might leave the auditorium. All remained, signed cards, agreed to pay 50? and receive a button. Then the seniors retired to Dr. Abbott's study and elected the First Battalion's commander, John Irwin of Keokuk, Iowa. In line for Second Battalion, since its Headmaster Howard Bement is on the Junior Division's advisory board, was vigorous Asheville School at Asheville. X. C, to which Headmaster Abbott paid a visit after the Lawrenceville meeting...
...fine are of transcending barriers of nationality. Not only language, but inter-racial insight and a grasp of a foreign culture have been the fruits of a conscientious attempt on the part of the student at self dependence. There have been, of course, men whose thirst for Keokuk or Hartford was so great as to handicap them even in their work, yet for the most part the disease is distinguished by rapid recovery and pleasant convalescence...
...round that some bad actor was selling short, the market might fall out of bed." He said that pushing a stock up is as bad as pushing it down -"especially if it's done just at the close of day's market. The fellow out on Keokuk tells his brother over a stein of beer: 'See what Telephone or Steel did?' Next morning they rush in and buy some at the advanced price, and the fellow who closed the market up sells it to them...