Word: torrent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...checked the occasional rampages of Cherry Creek, the historic stream which sluices between concrete embankments through the heart of the city to empty into the South Platte. Ever since the dam was pronounced unsafe by engineers, Denver has feared that its walls might one day crumble and a torrent of water go racing down Cherry Creek into the city. Not long ago the dam sprang a leak. One night last week a smashing summer cloudburst occurred over the reservoir. At 1:20 a. m. the mossy old dam burst...
...slight expense for six weeks. This suggestion has often been made by students who feel that the improvement would be more than worth the extra charge, and should be entertained more seriously than hitherto. Instead of furnishing menus that are just sufficiently tempting to keep back a torrent of complaints, Lehman Hall would do well to avoid the appearance of making reductions for the students' benefit and provide more attractive meals, regardless of the inconsequential increase in price...
Chairman Morgan's assigned objectives are as follows: 1) flood control works along the Tennessee River to even up its flow between a March torrent and an October trickle; 2) a 9-ft. channel for navigation from Knoxville to Paducah (650 mi.); 3) reforestation of marginal lands to prevent soil erosion and to supply the next generation with a timber crop; 4) decentralization of industry so that Tennessee Valley residents may live on farms while working in factories; 5) manufacture of fertilizer; 6) production and distribution of cheap hydroelectric power. For these purposes the Tennessee Valley Authority is permitted...
...principle, J. Stalin wants to be known as a driving force behind "The World Revolution of the World Proletariat." In fact, the cost of the Five-Year Plan has taxed Russia's resources so heavily that Soviet cash contributions to Communist organizations abroad have dwindled from a torrent to a trickle. Exception : Moscow still sends money & arms in generous quantities to Chinese Communists, considers that the Yellow Menace is the only one worth investing in at present...
...book by Bud G. De Sylva & Laurence Schwab; music by Nacio Herb Brown, Richard Whiting. Vincent Youmans; Laurence Schwab, producer) is fast, noisy, funny. It reverts to the pre-Depression type of musicomedy, makes no pretense of smartness but loses no entertainment value by its atavism. Buried in a torrent of gags, girls and Jew blues is a plot: a Harvardman, trying to cash in on his Hasty Pudding Club theatrical experience, woos and wins a lowly dancer whose fortune two shoe-string impresarios try to promote. No Harvardman was ever more blond and decorous than Jack Whiting (America...