Word: sluiceways
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...what a face! The features are covered with hair, the hair is covered with dirt. But just as the customers are about to scream, the monster waddles comically across the floor and revolves a massive iron wheel that looks as if it opened at least a sluiceway in Grand Coulee Dam. The pipe roars like Niagara, and from the end of it rushes-a dribble. With a cake of hope the monster airily washes its face. With a burlap bag it daintily towels off and, turning to the camera, presents...
Beginning with the modest assertion that the earliest surroundings of the sons of well-to-do people are nonliterate, Mr. Chapman adds that the private school is looked upon as a sluiceway to college. All through their life in the private school the boys are so oppressed by the spectre of the college entrance examination, marching upon them with a chastising text-book, that they cannot "find the leisure to be truly interested, truly absorbed in any thought." The remedy--Mr. Chapman uses the teaching of English as an example--is the reading of good books, learning poetry by heart...
...race will be started from the sluiceway above the Harvard Bridge at 4 o'clock sharp. The crews must be on time...
...latter soon separated from her rivals, hugging the shore and dropping her stroke to 34. A beautiful struggle for the lead now began between the three other boats, '86 holding it for a few rods and then yielding it to '87, who, in turn succumbed to '89. At the sluiceway '87 had the lead with the freshmen one and '86 two or three lengths behind. The '88 crew seemingly far in the rear, kept smoothly on near the shore. '89 continued her fast stroke, but '88 and '87 dropped to 34, and '86 to 32. There was no marked change...
...minute, and '83 at 32. At the short wall '84 was a length behind, and '85 was virtually out of the race before 100 yards had been rowed. At the short wall, '82 was gaining steadily, and '84 falling astern. Half-way between the short wall and the sluiceway '82 was a length ahead of '83, and there were two lengths of clear water between '82 and '84. At the sluiceway '82 made a spurt, and '84 was a good four lengths behind. About half-way between the sluiceway and the pump, '82 was still ahead, but '83 was gaining...
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