Word: dammed
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...true business man can understand it. Nedell makes a speech in which he offers to reform, rebuild, and repopulate the town. One can't help wondering if it was quite right of him to want to do all these things. As part of his agreement he puts forward a dam project with the aid of imaginary telephone conversations with Wall Street, and even succeeds in sending the befuddled owner of the car, who wanders in unexpectedly from Providence, rolling home...
...University wrestling team were also instrumental in enabling the men to get in good shape before mild weather permitted them to take to the water. Practice under the eyes of Dr. Spaeth and Assistant Coach Charles Logo has consisted mainly of easy rows, and short sprints down to the Dam at the end of the Lake. As yet no races between the two Varsities have been in order...
...crude, straightforward narrative is contrived by dragging in a hero-tramp with a fraternity pin, two trig scoundrels right out of Horatio Alger, a sleepy attorney who makes small-town small talk, a Chicago magnate who turns out to be a detective. Fists fly, autos are stolen, the big dam gets dynamited, ruining fat Pence. The Hollises ride the flood back to prestige. For variety's sake, the hero's grandfather leaves him a million and a half. Still, it can be read...
Exercise has always been a source of enjoyment to Professor Lanman. When the Hemenway Gymnasium was completed, he spent many hours on the track, counting the laps by reciting the letters of the Hebrew alphabet. Since the building of the Charles River dam, he has rowed more than 7,000 miles in an 11-foot shell. He celebrated his seventieth birthday by a pull to Watertown Dam and back. "Thus," he says, "I have tried to keep up through mature life the bodily activity to which I was used...
...President signed the first appropriation bills to come to him from Congress. The first was the Emergency Deficiency bill carrying $159,000,000, of which $150,000,000 was for tax refunds and $3,500,000 for the completion of Dam No. 2 at Muscle Shoals. The second was the Treasury Post Office Appropriation bill carrying...