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Westergaard came to Harvard only last September from the University of Illinois. He has served as a technical expert for the federal government on many construction projects including the Boulder Dam...
From 1916 on he had been on the faculty of the University of Illinois where he was professor of theoretical and applied mechanics. He acted as adviser for the United States Bureau of Reclamation in the building of Boulder Dam, and for other government bureaus in road and dam construction...
...save its two-year accumulation of timber, International last week did all it could. Lumberjacks wrapped hundreds of feet of steel cable back and forth across the piles of the Nett River Bridge over the Littlefork. Against this dam a log jam 40 feet thick and three miles long formed quickly, booming and groaning with the pressure from back stream. Meanwhile in Duluth and International Falls the toughest bars filled up with other lumberjacks waiting for the flood to subside and their own special job to begin. These were rivermen, skilled riders and drivers of logs. About 200 of them...
André Gide found himself growing more and more antipathetic to the orthodox ''revolutionary" line: "The spirit which is today held to be counter-revolutionary is that same revolutionary spirit, that ferment which first broke through the half-rotten dam of the old Tsarist world...
...imagine a guide saying: "And here is Boulder Dam--the engineering epitome of that age. And here is the Empire State: one Alfred Smith president. And for art, see here the Lincoln Memorial. A great age that was with unprecendented material progress, physical and medical research. But it got them: their material power gave them a confidence and a hollow sophistication which is always the death warrant of moral progress. It is the same old story: people thought they saw through everything and consequently saw nothing. But come, come, how many will take the ride to Mars...