Word: reservoirs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time at a little less than 2? a day a head. Tuareg tempers grew no better when, upon the first distribution of relief grain several weeks ago, many died from wolfing barley, then drinking water. The Government moved again, talked loudly of a great program of well-drilling and reservoir-building south of the Atlas. The Tuaregs have little interest in reservoirs for the future, they want food now, and France cannot let them cross the mountains. Fascist propaganda, though not yet as serious in Morocco as in Tunisia, is a deep worry to French Moroc can officials. Shrewd diplomacy...
...University controls, no matter how many great and famous scholars have been developed or have been induced to study in Harvard, no matter the size of the library or the splendor of the laboratory facilities, the University has got to pass on to the students a share of its reservoir of learning, if it claims to train young men to assume their places in the society in which we live...
...legal thought. Thus, in all fairness to the man and to the University to which he is to give his services, one can ask "Is he fitted to teach and to direct the teaching of lawyers?" For Harvard, besides its function as a laboratory for new thought and a reservoir for the preservation of old, ought also to be a training school in the practice of law by young...
...winters ago a needy wayfarer sought and received refuge at the Cistercian Monastery. He was William Devro, a steam-shovel operator from Providence. Devro did odd jobs for the monks, proved useful when it became necessary to enlarge the monastery's reservoir. At a small weekly stipend Devro was put in the cab of a steam crane, under the guidance of the community's civil engineer, Brother Hugh. One day a cable on the crane tore loose, struck Devro in the eye. The monks treated him in their infirmary, then sent him to a Providence hospital. He lost...
...foot high and 16 ft. wide. Six salmon "elevators" or fish locks were also provided. These are chambers 20 by 30 ft. into which the salmon may swim; then a gate is closed and a grating, similar to an elevator, rises until the fish can swim out into the reservoir above the dam. These devices have not yet been tested, for salmon are still able to swim between the piers of the unfinished dam. Unfortunately salmon swim blindly into places where the current is strongest, and if the 50,000 salmon a day which pass upstream at spawning time...