Word: torrent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another day dawned and there lay the cruiser Memphis, smart as a yacht. The Texas, massive manofwar, waited respectfully far offshore. The embarkation ceremonies were stiff but sun-warmed. The Texas poured out a torrent of black smoke and clove the deep blue Gulf for gay Havana...
Eight years ago motor-maker Henry Ford bought a magazine. Mr. Ford, like many another national figure, wanted an organ which would distribute his own distillate of the world-wide torrent of printed talk about him. The sheet was called The Dearborn Independent. It contained articles of opinion, ethical, political, factual: also Mr. Ford's page. These bits of philosophy (collected in a volume called Ford Ideals) were reported as prompted, if not actually penned, by Mr. Ford. Latterly The Dearborn Independent suggested one idea to many a U. S. mind-anti-Semitism. Its columns carried Jewish articles which...
...form of bricks. That trail is no little promenade even in the daytime; but we found ourselves on it one evening in the pitch dark and rain with five miles of the hardest stretch before us. It is no fund picking your way along with a roaring torrent about 1000 feet directly below...
Overnight Lake Constance in Switzerland rose 15 feet as the upper reaches of the Rhine poured in its roaring torrent of muddy water. Higher and higher rose the Rhine, greater and greater became the pressure of the angry, swollen current and, finally, the huge 5,000-foot dam between Switzerland and the tiny principality of Liechtenstein burst and the water shot down the mountain side like 10,000 enraged tigers pouncing on their prey...
...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 states were to have done likewise. But they could...