Word: outlet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...PLAIN MAN'S WARNING (non-copy right) (2). Suppose you had a nation entirely under your personal dominion: a nation for whose energy and enterprise you must find an outlet outside its borders; a nation in whose eyes you aim to shine as a hero far more brightly than Clive in our eyes. And suppose you were a "madman" like Clive, but aiming at an infinitely greater prize- the British Empire- how would you set about it? PLAIN...
...this deal Mr. Lilienthal secured a big-city outlet for some of his surplus power, and Bond & Share got $6,200,000 which was enough to pay off the bonds of the local company and leave a little something for preferred stockholders. With bondholders' approval practically assured, Mr. Lilienthal departed for a happy holiday in Britain...
...schedule this year--Harvard, Notre Dame, and Navy. Really tested only twice so far, none of these games are being taken too lightly, especially since Army has just broken even on its tests with Yale and Illinois. Harvard wants revenge for 1932 and 1933; Army wants an outlet for its fury hitherto checked. Buckler's injury is only slight and the majority of the squad are in fair condition. On paper, the Cadets have the edge, but nothing short of the meeting on the field of battle tomorrow will decide the better team...
...visionary San 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...
...club is designed to provide an effective outlet for the political effort and personal influence of students who are not ordinarily active in politics but who, through this club, can assist in assuring to their native Commonwealth the Constitutional guaranties of individual freedom, personal security, the right of free contract and broadminded executives, intent on true public service...