Word: pond
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...floods of 1927, the original dam was washed away, and it has been unrepaired for 14 years. A large artificial pond, which provided bathing and boating facilities as well as farm irrigation, disappeared with...
...Hampshire work camp, five Harvard students and 18 other college undergraduates constructed a stone and concrete dam which will provide the town of Grafton Center, New Hampshire, with a 68 acre pond...
...town of Grafton Center was naturally pleased with PBH's offer to establish a work camp there, for the restoration of the dam and pond would mean increased real estate and perhaps industrial, business there, on a small scale at least. The town fathers there fore appropriated $1200 to pay for the cost of material. The remaining costs of the project, totalling a little less than $1000, were taken care of by PBH! American Defense, Harvard Group, and the participating students themselves...
Last week a Moscow children's paper, describing the Moscow Zoo during an air raid, found ostriches, buffaloes and deer scared, lions and bears brave. But they paid special tribute to Moscow's gallant elephants. "When some incendiary bombs fell near by the elephants rushed to the pond, filled their trunks with water and squirted on the bombs until they went...
Tupelo is an ultra-romantic spot on the shores of Lake Waban, otherwise known as Wellesley pond. There the wily Wellesley lassies will in traditional manner seek to entrap the Class of '45 on balmy spring nights...