Word: rims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Companies office at Las Vegas, Nev., the rail junction for the job. Then he proceeded across the mountain wastes to Black Canyon. Before Superintendent Crowe could start actual dambuilding, he had to do these things: 1) complete the 20-mile railroad from Las Vegas to Black Canyon rim over which all material must be lowered. 2) Construct Boulder City to house 2,500 workers and their families. 3) Build an eightmile, double-track, standard-gauge rail line from Boulder City down to the canyon, to the dam site. 4) Blast out of solid rock in the canyon walls four tunnels...
...shown. He argues that if the world were round, trains and boats could not make the uphill grade of its curvature; that people at the bottom would tumble off. When he heard that Commander Byrd planned to explore the South Pole he sent many warnings that the rim of the world is a hazardous place. Now he says that Commander Byrd was indeed lucky that a big wall of ice hemmed him in so he could not venture too far, tumble into eternity. He also holds that the sun is 32 miles across, no more than 3,000 miles away...
...molded sand the color of ice. No use to force a camel in a long race; what he makes the first day he will lose the second. At Ghardaïa, the Mezabits rode out to meet the first camel which, heavy-footed, appeared on the desert's rim. The rider was one Mohamed Ahabi, the dromedary "Fleet as Sirocco." The pair had covered the 187 mi. in 33 hr. Ali Ben Maccha was still a mile away and one hour later Ben Orgha raced in for his certificate...
...issue on which the Cabinet was defeated last week was an amendment to the school attendance bill. Twenty-six Laborites bolted their party to vote for it. With this gaping split in his ranks Scot MacDonald is clinging by his fingertips to the crackling rim of Doom...
...after having thought the matter over for a year, Novelist Grey decided that he had been insulted by this refusal, so grossly insulted that he would never go back to Arizona again. He said he would not even write any more of his famed Arizona stories (Under the Tonto Rim, Roping Lions in the Grand Canyon, etc.). He charged neighboring hunters with spreading untrue, derogatory tales about his sportsmanship. Said he: "In twelve years my whole bag of game has been five bears, three bucks and a few turkeys. I have written 15 novels with Arizona background. Personally it cost...