Word: rhode
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...respectively, the largest and the second highest in the world, the project includes a network of canals and spillways 6,000 miles long. On it 77,000 men were employed for nine years. It cost $75,000,000 and will irrigate a rainless desert area as big as Massachusetts. Rhode Island and Delaware together. Statisticians figured that the masonry in the Lloyd dam would build a wall six feet high, 15 inches thick and 520 miles long. It should provide farm work for an additional 2,500,000 people...
...illustrated lecture by E. M. M. Warburg '30 on the sculpture of Georg Kolbe, in the Great Hall of the Germanic Museum. Warburg has been teaching Fine Arts at Bryn Mawr College and has lectured at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence...
...game started inauspiciously with several fouls for both sides, interspersed by occasional baskets. Harvard, playing a good defensive game, managed to gain a 9 to 8 lead, which it held for several minutes. Then suddenly the Friar attack began to function, and within a few minutes the Rhode Islanders had rolled up their score to 20, while the Crimson failed to get the ball near the basket. Matursevitch dropped a basket a few seconds before the intermission, making the score 20 to 11 at half-time...
...plan is similar to what was done by the Dental School two years ago in Providence, Rhode Island, and Springfield, when groups of Dental School instructors visited these communities to give lectures and demonstrations on new developments in the various branches of dentistry. The significant feature of this program, which comprises a dozen meetings held on Tuesday evenings during January, February, and March, is that greater emphasis than ever before is being placed upon the scientific and laboratory aspects of dental practice...
Francis Riley told his schoolmates and somebody told Judge Kathryn Sellers. Judge Sellers sent twp U. S. marshals to investigate. The marshals went to the Riley home on Rhode Island Avenue, descended to the basement. They opened the door of a windowless closet and there found something that whimpered and blinked and ate food scraps from a pan. It was the Riley's 12-year-old child. Edith, scarred and filthy. Her case, broached to horrified Washington. D. C. two months ago, was settled insofar as the law could settle it last week...