Word: reservoirs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Besides these large obstacles, there are minor ones. Some object on moral grounds to the introduction of alcohol in any form. This argument can and should be answered by facing that fact known to all, that every college is at the present a perfect reservoir of bad liquor, and that the only influence of beer would be a salutary one leading away from poor gin. There will undoubtedly be other technical difficulties to be overridden. For instance, the beer cannot nominally be handled by the University Dining Halls, but must be dispensed by the individual House Clubs; prices will have...
...continue for three or four months beginning June 20. Grenfell urgently expresses the need for all volunteers who can pay their transpiration and expenses. In the past years about 150 Harvard men have responded, and this year plans are being completed for installing a hydro-electric plant, utilizing a reservoir built by volunteers...
...house, with terraced gardens, a pool on each terrace, and drives flanked by Japanese maple, dogwood, evergreens. He wore a cropped mustache and bejewelled stickpin, was referred to as an "oldfashioned banker." one whose suggestions were "received with respect in Washington." (In 1918 he suggested filling the Central Park Reservoir with coal. "New York has its Croton; why not a coal reserve...
While her mother lay ill in her girlhood home at Meriden, Conn., Soprano Rosa Melba Ponselle gave a concert at Hartford. In the midst of "Home, Sweet Home" she broke down, fled weeping from the stage. Said Robert Kellogg, impresario: "It was the overflow of her vast emotional reservoir...
...believe we've got to have some reservoir of relief or we'll have riots. . . . I'm willing to go before the country for the whole people while President Hoover goes before them for his 'selected clientele...