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About twenty-five years ago, when the building of the Charles River dam stabilized rowing conditions, Harvard rowing men began looking forward to the day when the wooden-pile bridges along the river with their single narrow openings would be replaced by arched bridges allowing several crews to race under them...
Late despatches reported that the Druses are now riding into battle shouting, "Ham, ham! Dam, dam!" (Trouble, trouble! Blood, blood...
...chronic stars with whom you cannot quarrel. He always does the same, does it well and to the complete satisfaction of the millions. If it is stereotyped and unimportant it does not matter. This cinema is a Western rouser with a dynamited dam and flood at the climax...
...great sea walls, with water gates to shut the 100 sq. mi. of Passamaquoddy Bay into an upper pool. Other walls would immure Cobscook, the lower bay, 50 sq. mi. more. Across the inlet between the two pools thus formed, from Eastport* (island) to the Maine mainland, a dam and power house would be built. Operation would be as follows: on a rising tide, the gates to the upper pool would be opened to admit the sea. At flood, the gates would close. No water from the sea would ever enter the lower pool, its gates being opened only when...
...devote the rest of his life to its completion. It would cost over 75 millions, he figures. It would take 5,000 workmen five years. The sea walls necessary total over a mile in length and at to upper pool must be 70 ft. high. The power dam is 3,600 ft. To build in the concrete water gates, mountains of rock would have to be dropped in the tideways, some of which are 200 feet deep...