Word: dammed
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...Keokuk, la., a vast power dam sprawls across the Mississippi River. Before it was built, many an engineer scratched his head ruefully, doubted that it could be done because of the vagaries of the banks of the Father of Waters...
Again the continent shivered and stretched its right hip. Brick fell in the streets of Santa Barbara, buildings collapsed, hotels and banks were reported in ruins, the dam of one of the city's reservoirs burst, telegraphic and telephonic connections severed, several were killed...
...Subscriber Anderson mistakes the etymology and hence the spelling of the expression: "don't give a dam." The dam, small Indian coin, was put into this expression by British Army officers, who made the phrase current when they returned home from India. In etymology, it is similar to the expression: "don't give a continental...
...headwaters of U. S. population arose in 1924. The dam that holds them held tighter than before. Last week, the Census Bureau reported an increase in the birth rate of 2% (to 22.5 per 1,000) ; the death rate fell...
...disports himself as the watery youth whose mother makes him take tonics. He is snatched from her protecting clutches by circumstance and thrust into the midst of a dance hall and ranch-grabbing plot over the Mexican border. Fifty or 60 fights and a dynamited dam suffice to make...