Word: pours
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mississippi. Instead of being raised three feet like other levees, the "fuse plug" levees at the mouths of these floodways were left at the old level so floods would wash over them. Still a fourth protection was devised, the Bonnet Carre Spillway not far above New Orleans, to pour flood waters out of the main Mississippi channel into Lake Pontchartrain which is virtually an arm of the Gulf. Finally the whole river was shortened 100 miles by cutting off numerous loops and meanders, so that the flood waters would go down faster instead of piling...
...giving their medical school $6,250,000 that he got to his feet and cried out he would give Oxford another $3,750,000. explaining that he did so "on the sudden impulse of the moment." Punch promptly cartooned Nuffield honking a motor horn from which gold pieces pour into the inverted mortarboards of scrambling Oxford dignitaries...
...started to buy rails and equipment in a big way for the first time in years. In the three months through November the railroads ordered 680,000 tons of rails and fastenings. In the same period of 1934 the total was a measly 36,000 tons. Orders continued to pour in last week, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe alone requiring 155,000 tons of rails and fastenings worth $6,135,000, biggest single rail order since...
...Given this manifestation of solar activity, our interest lies in the determination of any possible terrestrial influence," Andrews said. "The presence of huge magnetic fields in the sunspots results in their acting as howitzers to pour forth charged particles of matter into the interplanetary realm. If the earth is in the range of the howitzer, its atmosphere is the recipient of these particles, and, beyond doubt, electrical phenomena should occur there...
...taking a fifth or even a sixth course. This is a perfectly fair provision, as the man who wants to take only four is responsible for his decision and should begrudge no one else the right to add courses to his schedule. Secondly, Freshman Advisers should be empowered to pour cold water on the ambitions of obviously incompetent men who aspire to graduate in three years. Otherwise the mortality of failures might become unnecessarily high...