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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rush three sturdy rivers-the Pit, the McCloud, the Sacramento-to unite under the latter's name in a deep valley just above Redding, Calif. Since 1866 engineers have dreamed of throwing up a dam below the rivers' confluence, to stabilize the water supply of the whole fertile Sacramento Valley. Besides irrigation and flood control, hydroelectric power would be a byproduct, perhaps making profitable the mining of iron ores now locked in the wild Siskiyou Mountains north of Shasta...
Heavy trucks rumbled into Paris and dumped sand at points where it would be handy to shovel into bags for bomb shelters. Some 1,200,000 Frenchmen were with the colors, for in France also, recruits whose training period ended with August received no permission to return home. The whole of the vast steel and cement subterranean Maginot Line was more fully manned than ever before. General Edouard Réquin, in command of the Maginot Line, was abruptly promoted to the Superior War Council and several other high army commanders were given new key posts by Premier Daladier...
...speed. But the least amount of frozen water necessary to slow up the earth would have changed the average sea level all over the world by about a foot. This has not happened. The weight of mountains and force of volcanoes are also inconsiderable. Even if the whole group of Himalayas could be razed and piled up at the pole, the earth's speed would not be altered...
Despite political disorder, widespread paganism and actual persecution, the at titude of European churchmen is not one of defeatism but, according to Professor Horton, "of courage, hope and active service of God and man - service which necessarily refuses to define its objectives very far in advance, since the whole surface of European life is cracking and sinking under foot like a thawing ice floe, but which receives its orders day by day from God, who alone knows what will be required of his servants by tomorrow!" Since the Russian Orthodox Church, before the War, was deepest bogged in reaction...
...them on baseball bats and traipse around the campus like pixies wearing hats two or three feet high. Each spring they raise squirrels in their dresser drawers. A common event at dinner is the passing of the "boss" (dessert) from unlucky to lucky wagerers. Sometimes boys will bet a whole year's boss on an election or whether a master's wife's baby will be a boy or girl. Once they smeared treacle (molasses) on the bell rope and the whole school rapturously watched Principal Hoxton grab it. For their misdeeds the boys get demerits, which...