Word: preventers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Major General Edgar Jadwin, Chief of the U. S. Army engineers, rose to his feet. General Jadwin reiterated the army-engineer insistence upon levees as the backbone of flood prevention. He said that though the flood has submerged 20,000 square miles, it would have submerged 30,000 had levees not restricted its spread. General Jadwin also attacked the popular theory that reforestation would prevent future floods; he pointed out that in 1844, when the valley was thickly forested, it experienced one of the greatest floods of its history...
...flesh of her lower lip and insert a flat wooden plug. Do the same with the upper lip, and gradually insert larger and larger plugs. At last two wooden discs as large as soup plates, each edged with stretched lip, will hang down from the beautified face, almost prevent speech, and render eating extremely difficult. Complete the beautification by filing the teeth to sharp points and hanging a ring in the nose. Then, in the French Colony of Senegal, West Africa, the woman so adorned may expect to command an excellent price from a wife-seeker...
...marines at Tientsin, and personally hurried up to confer with Mr. MacMurray at Peking. Meanwhile the British and French were rushing troops to protect their legations at Peking, and observers thought that only the very greatest tenacity on the part of U. S. President Coolidge would prevent the U. S. Administration from being swept into the policy long advocated by Minister MacMurray: armed intervention cooperating with Great Britain and other Great Powers...
...order, therefore, to prevent postponement of work, it would perhaps be well for instructors to give important hour examinations directly before the reading periods, and perhaps a number of tests throughout their courses. Thus the student would be compelled to do the work which parallels the lectures and at the same time would be saved in the reading period from a burden of work which he could not possibly cover...
...reprint the missing pages, or even to mend the old pages if they should be returned and to rebind the volume, will be a serious expense, yet the Library must in some way repair the loss. Any course of action or any expression of opinion that will prevent such destruction in the future, we should be prompt to adopt...