Word: stream
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from whom Congress and the President will learn what had best be done to keep the Mississippi River an orderly stream in the future, are five boards of Army engineers. The separate provinces of these boards are apparent from their various titles-the Mississippi River Commission, the Spillways Board, the Reservoirs Board, the Navigation Board, the By-Path Board. Not until they all report finally can "the greatest rehabilitation measure," mentioned by Secretary Hoover (see above), be framed...
Hormones. Professor C. G. Barger and others discussed them. They are organic chemical compounds in the blood stream, in units of ultramicroscopic size. They actuate bodily organs much as nerves do, but more slowly, requiring to be transported bodily to the organs, like letters, whereas the nerves flash their stimuli like telegrams. The best known hormones: insulin, thyroxin, adrenalin, pituitrin...
After shaking hands all round, they resorted to Denver's State Office Building, assumed their poker faces and resumed their long, long discussion of a problem vital to all, a problem in water, the main stream of water in all the 792,509 sq. mi. governed by them, the Colorado River...
...Governors of Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico and their host, the Governor of Colorado, had little left to settle. Their states are in the upper basin of the Colorado River, "upper" meaning "up-stream," for the Colorado flows roughly southwest. Prior negotiations at Santa Fe, N. M., in 1922, had established the principle that, when the Colorado's torrent is entirely turned to human use, 50% of its volume will go to the upper basin states, 50% to the lower basin states. The four upper basin states then agreed on proportional allotments of their 50% among themselves. The lower basin...
...Famed naturalist, sportsman, associate editor of Field & Stream. Many the good bass yarn (sea bass) has he written...