Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...river drops below a specified level at Trenton, New York must release a part of its impounded supply. On the East Branch will be constructed an $18,700,000 dam from which a tunnel big enough to drive an automobile in will be blasted 22 mi. through solid mountain rock to link with the present Catskill system. Another $7,200,000 reservoir will be made on the Neversink River. Total cost of dams, reservoirs and aqueducts for the new project: $210,000,000. Twelve years will elapse before its completion...
...landscape architecture, the winner was Neil Hamill Park. 36, of Parkin, Ark., a graduate of Little Rock College and Cornell...
...Yale News' assertion that the abolition of the classics requirement at New Haven will "rock the firm foundation of classical culture in secondary schools" is fine hyperbole. That foundation has long since lost any, Gibraltar-like quality. It is unlikely, on the other hand, that the classics are doomed to complete neglect at any early date...
...waters of a mountain stream. It has two mouths. Instead of scales it has what seem to be plates of silver. When the currents (which at times go 50 m. p. h.) are too fast for the ganoid, it creates a vacuum in its lower jowls, hangs on a rock by the suction and brakes itself with the plates of its silver armor...
...charge of the work said that, after boring 35 feet, he found in one place a rock bottom, and in another a hardpan formation, which is a mixture of clay, gravel and sand, and makes a very good foundation. The ground that will be under the heavy steeple of the proposed chapel has been tested to the satisfaction of the foreman. So, the steeple will be able to be built on the corner of the new chapel nearest Sever, as the design calls...