Word: reservoirs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...specific bombing. Last week, while the bombs fell four miles and more away, the Pope prayed in his private chapel. Later he visited San Lorenzo fuori le Mura, found it "in grandissimi parte" destroyed, though the altar and the tomb of Pius IX survived. Drawing upon his rich reservoir of sonorous prose, he wrote the Vicar General of Rome...
...brass hats to inspect the hospital. Presently the ranking officer of the party disappeared into the toilet and the colonel heard an unusual fuss. He went in to see what the trouble was and found the officer standing on the seat, pouring the bucket of water into the overhead reservoir, preparing to pull the chain. That, someone remarked, was what the Army calls "going through channels...
Willkie's concern is ever for principles, for building up the vast reservoir of international good will which the United States already enjoys; hence he vituperates the Tunisian-dead. Impracticality might be charged, but it is at least a healthy impracticality. A more serious irrationalism occurs when he attempts to represent the Republican Party as equally internationalist as the Democratic Party; gut the vital statistics of Congressional balloting should show such a statement to be an indulgence of wishful thinking. Mr. Willkie's Republican colleagues are mostly sterile or poisonous so far as international thinking is involved. Nevertheless, Willkie...
...since that time the unit has plugged ahead through rough times, often faltering, sometimes erring, but turning out many efficient Field Artillery officers on the way. Born as a quick trainer for the last war, the ROTC has become a national fact, a training source that built up the reservoir of officers for the early days of this war. The cadets who will march this afternoon seem destined to be the last at Harvard for some time...
...world only to Grand Coulee in Washington. Its whirling turbines will feed power through the West. Its huge bulk-580 ft. thick, more than 560 ft. high, 3,500 ft. long-will back water 35 miles up the Sacramento, Pit and McCloud rivers. Along with the Friant Reservoir on the San Joaquin River, this man-made great lake will irrigate 1,000,000 California acres which would otherwise be largely desert...