Word: waters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Future Program. A moderate tax reduction is possible. "But let it be remembered that tax reduction is possible solely on account of economy. Anybody can spend the money somebody else has saved." Flood control, Lakes-to-Gulf and St. Lawrence waterways, the Colorado River water & power project, the Columbia Basin, the Navy, and aviation and highways to make more intimate "our relationship with the vast territory between the Rio Grande and Cape Horn in a commercial way . . . will be some of the rewards of a judicious management of the national finances...
Academic applause had greeted President Butler's speech on "The Lost Art of Thinking." Political cartoons-a far surer sign that something may have happened-greeted Senator Borah's salvos. He was pictured dragging a shuddering elephant to a water trough. He was shown pointing at a chained elephant with angry little eyes, and shouting: "From now on you're a camel...
Here is as good-natured a show as was ever fished out of fresh water. Like most things fished out of freshwater, it is inclined to be a bit wet, but it is all right for Harvard undergraduates who want to see what college is really like...
...world. Under the River Thames, at London, are Blackwall and Rotherhithe Tunnels, each 1¼ mi. long. Other important underwater vehicular tunnels are at Glasgow and Hamburg. The longest tunnel in the world, regardless of purpose, is the Shandaken Tunnel in New York State-28.l mi. It carries water to the Ashokan Reservoir...
Another feat was to photograph and thus make visible atomic disintegration. How he aid so he demonstrated to the American Chemical Society at their 1926 meeting in Los Angeles. The scientists there knew that in moisture-laden air invisible particles of dust collect moisture until they become visible water vapor. Professor Wilson theorized that ionized molecules in a dust-free, moisture-logged receptacle would also provide foci for water condensation. Into such a chamber he shot alpha particles from an x-ray machine. Drops did collect on the alpha particles...