Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...site. 4) Blast out of solid rock in the canyon walls four tunnels 50 ft. in diameter to divert temporarily the Colorado's flow 4.000 ft. around the dam site. 5) Erect a temporary dam upstream to turn the river into the tunnels and another downstream to stop backwash. Only then will the bed of the Colorado be laid bare and dry to receive the foundation, 600 ft. thick, of Hoover Dam. Power to operate all machinery must be led in from 200 miles away in California...
...Committee, through its counsel, James Francis Burke, spoke de- fensively as follows: "The American people are already suffering from an overproduction of politics. . . . The whole country is now praying for political relief. So why not give politics a short recess? . . . Everyone must cool off and carry on. We must stop snarling and begin smiling. Sanity will then have more front seats and more front page. Passion will subside and prudence will preside...
...Earl Brydges, musher from Cranberry Portage: the 200-mi. non-stop dogsled derby at The Pas, Manitoba, riding in his sled, too tired to mush, with three played-out dogs in the sled with him, and six pulling. Shorty Russic was second; Emil St. Goddard, the favorite, third...
...carcass into a ring in Miami and sat down on his stool while various brisk little men fussed around him. One of the men was a doctor, for Carnera was supposed to have cracked one of his lower right ribs in training. The doctor had authority to stop the fight at any time if the patient felt badly. In the opposite corner sat Jim Maloney, hairy, amiable and hog-fat, who lost a ten-round bout with Jack Sharkey five years ago when Maloney was considered a fighter. Last autumn with the aid of a hometown referee Maloney took...
Meanwhile Mayor Walker is going as far into the setting sun as possible. At every stop on his journey he dismounts and laughs off the latest news from. New York, but to the critical it sounds as if Jimmy were just a wee bit hysterical...