Word: waterous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...engineers' remedy: stop the well digging and dig a tunnel through the mountains to bring water from Toluca's Lerma River for the soggy but thirsty capital...
...Mexican who was unmoved by such warnings was swarthy, cigar-chomping Arturo Quiroz. As custodian of the 16-story National Lottery building, Mexico City's only floating skyscraper, he had only to transfer water from one to another of the four great ballast tanks beneath his building, then keep her steady as she went. Said he: "We'll ride it down. Everybody should be doing the same...
...mile Alaska Highway, now an all-weather (gravel) road from Dawson Creek, B.C. to Fairbanks, Alaska, was finally opened to tourists. Among new accommodations: public camping grounds (with fresh water and cooking stoves) in the 600-mile stretch through Yukon Territory. Canada's advice to tourists: make reservations early (inns are few & far between) or bring camping equipment...
Theology & Liturgy. For a revitalization of Protestantism, the first thing needed, says Theologian Niebuhr, is a return to theology: "Theology is one of the conduits of faith without which the water which rises in the springs of Evangelicalism runs into the sand." Also needed is "an adequate liturgy. . . . American Protestantism cannot regain its spiritual vitality without seeking for a better synthesis between religious spontaneity and religious tradition and discipline...
...Rock Ridge Night Rocket, who looks as if he wouldn't last five minutes in an alley fight, lives in style at the Connecticut kennels of his owner, William A. Rockefeller (John D.'s grandnephew). Out at the kennels, which even have an imitation red water hydrant to entertain the Bedlingtons, the grand champion answers to "Timmie." Only two years old next month, he was handled in the ring by Anthony Neary, a square-beamed Bedlington coal miner who helped introduce the breed to U.S. shows 18 years...