Word: damming
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...giving away of a dam at Louisville, Ky., flooded a large part of the city with water, and the people living in the inundated district barely escaped with their lives...
...Union boat-house, where it took in the referee, Wm. S. Eaton, Jr. It then proceeded directly to the starting line. A new method of starting the the crews was adopted for the first time this year. A rope was stretched from the bank near the Mill-dam road to a point about the middle of the bridge. There were placed at equal distances along this rope boats, each kept in place by guy-ropes, from which the crews were started. This arrangement insured a perfectly fair start...
...Dark Horse (by Chance, out of Spite - dam The Odds...
Conkling & Cameron's Third Term (out of Office, by General Consent - dam Rascality...
Maine's Plumed Knight (by Chance or Magnetism, out of Order - dam Extraordinary Boom) . . . 3 The rest distanced...