Word: waterous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flock of more than 200 young Christian scavengers who faithfully attend his Sunday School, Ye Yun Ho is presently engaged in a campaign to teach them the use of soap and water. Believing that cleanliness is next to godliness, he has been cutting cakes of soap from the relief packages into small pieces and leading his charges down the embankment from the church to the Han, where, he says, he is making slow but recognizable headway in teaching them the blessings of a daily bath...
Barrels of ice water awaited the thirsty on the Louisiana State University campus. At L.S.U. stadium, where 10,000 assembled to watch the inaugural ceremonies, there was free food & drink for all-200,000 hot dogs, a quarter of a million buns, 8,000 gallons of buttermilk, a quarter of a million bottles of root beer, Coke and "red soda...
...valley, and of another empire beyond that, rich in silver & gold, diamonds & rubies. Explorers soon found that this icy, inky tributary of the St. Lawrence was no Northwest Passage: it was navigable for only 80 miles. Above the Indian village of Chicoutimi, "the end of the deep water," the river ran white and turbulent-and, it seemed, useless-from Lake St. John...
Last week, with the ice gone at last from the flat water downstream, ships of many nations furrowed the glacier-carved Saguenay. Inbound, most of them carried cargoes of orange-colored bauxite (aluminum ore) from British Guiana. A few were laden to the Plimsoll mark with cryolite from Greenland, fluorspar from Newfoundland, pitch and coke from the U.S. At Port Alfred on Ha! Ha! Bay,? fine ores were loaded into railroad cars for a 20-mile journey beyond the deep water. The freighters were reloaded with aluminum, in ingots or billets, for the industry of Canada and foreign lands...
Most of the ships go to Bagotville. A few passengers will see the sturdy French-Canadian workmen on the docks of Port Alfred, sweating in the sun, Virgin's medals on their hairy chests. A few will get to the end of the deep water and to Chicoutimi, now a cathedral city of 30,000, with cinemas, an airline office, soda counters and neon signs. But few will get more than a glimpse of the twinkling lights of Arvida, seven miles away...