Word: runnell
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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Drops of water trickling down a wooded hillside swell to a runnel, a rivulet, a brook, a creek, join the great feeder streams and then the long, smooth, thousand-mile slide of the Big River, widening to the Gulf. Down river cotton is king. Up north there is timber. "We built a hundred cities and a thousand towns but at what a cost." The forests of Wisconsin and Minnesota slip down sluices to the tune of "A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight." The Alleghenies are laid open in the quest for coal and ore. And the uncontrolled Mississippi...
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