Word: stem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...diverting the river through tunnels was discarded as too expensive and too risky, and cellular coffer dams of sheet steel were built to keep the river out of the excavation area. Three weeks ago one of these crumpled and water poured through the leak. The engineers tried vainly to stem the flow with earth, gravel, brush. Then they thought of volcanic ash. When this is moistened it swells- like oatmeal-to 15 times the dry volume, tightly plugging every crack & cranny. Tons of the puffy paste were poured into the breach and the flow of invading water shortly ceased...
...half wide moving at 8 m.p.h. When the gripman grips, the cable car moves steadily up the steepest hill, protected by three sets of brakes. Busiest cable car is the Powell Street line, starting on a turntable where Powell joins Market Street, San Francisco's "main stem." Passengers scurry for seats while the gripman and conductor swing the tiny car on the turntable until it faces uphill. Then with a great clanking (gripmen traditionally play tunes on their gongs) the car rolls up the sharp grade, past the swank Fairmont and Mark Hopkins Hotels while the conductor collects...
...rise in prices, there can be little doubt that a process of inflation of a mild degree is underway. But with Governor Eccles talking about a balanced budget--a political impossibility--and clinging to rock-bottom interest rates, it will take more than mere "monetary monkey business" to stem the flood when it threatens to overflow its appointed bounds...
...Only a united Christian world can stem the rising tide of materialism, of selfishness, of shaken traditions, of crum bling moral standards, and point...
...horse of the theatre, father of Alice Brady, husband of Grace George, who rose from the Bowery by promoting everything from prize rights (Jim Corbett) to plays, tells in his own or somebody else's racy lingo how he reached the top of the Main Stem...