Word: level
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dirge" make one suspect that, after all, there may "be a reason" for letters like the "famed" X. Y. Z. W. Something-Somethingelse's.f To one who fully realizes the beauty "swan-song" and the aptness inventor in of the "swan dirge" expression stands on a level with the Havana flower peddler, who sprays his roses with cheap synthetic perfume. K. DAHLBERG Coral Gables, Fla. Mention...
...five such major crevasses in Louisiana; nothing has been done about repairing them, and it is feared that so much time has been lost already that the openings cannot be closed in time for the next spring rise of the Mississippi. With much of the land below the level of the river, it is obvious that even a small rise in the waters would cause another catastrophe. It is reported that Federal authorities wish to have one-fourth of the levee repair work (cost estimated at $50,000,000) paid for by the people of the flood region...
...Denver is the Super-Optimist, I'll tell the world. . . . Denver is ten miles high in hospitality. You can't tell me it is only 5,280 feet above sea level."?Thomas B. Elliott of St. Louis, international secretary-treasurer...
...present overabundant production. There does exist an old Oklahoma law that may apply to the situation. But lawyers doubt its constitutionality. Meanwhile, Shell Union Oil Co., after spending $100,000 to drill a well down 6,000 feet near Marshall, Logan County, Okla., had just tapped an oil level new to Oklahoma. Theirs is the deepest paying well there, producing 3,600 barrels of crude oil daily.* The nearby Seminole area of Oklahoma with more than 550 wells last week established a new record for one day's output-444,000 barrels. This, however, was just one half...
...years ago several mile-deep wells were opened near Los Angeles. Last week the General Petroleum Co. completed another in the neighborhood and thereby tapped a new oil level...