Word: main
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...building will be divided into three main sections, the auditorium, the vestbule foyer with offices and rooms for the Triangle Club, and the stage work shop...
...boxes and tables which will be occupied by the Seniors and their guests will be upon the main floor of Memorial Hall itself and near the apex of the Delta. These boxes in the Delta will hold from six to eight persons, while the larger ones in the Hall will accommodate from 12 to 16 occupants...
With the great Mississippi flood of 1927 quietly seeping into the Gulf of Mexico, attention turned toward preventing the river from ever again driving valley-dwellers from their homes in hundreds of thousands. It appears certain that the levee system will continue to carry the main burden of flood prevention, but various adjuncts to it have been insistently urged...
...square miles and making homeless some 600,000 people. But expert opinion still clings to them as the backbone of flood prevention. Doubtless they will, in the future, be built higher and stronger, but, as far as can at present be determined, the levee will always carry the main burden of confining the river and to it all other methods will be not more than adjuncts, auxiliaries. Writing for the New York World Herbert C. Hoover said: "The levee system needs to be revised and strengthened and, above all, we must have some other safety devices which will relieve...
Cries from the main tent told us to hurry for choice seats or even those splinters called bleachers. And soon we were watching cowgirls and cowboys and their cows doing such stunts as my merry Oscar had not seen before since he was in Sweden with the Marines during the battle of Jungfrau...