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Word: reservoir (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...telling commentary that this is something new. But in the past only council members themselves did the job: usually, in fact, some four or five scurried about with no apparent, concept of the colossal reservoir of untapped talent crying for discreet exploitation...

Author: By Sellg S. Harrison, | Title: Councils 'New Look' stirs Action on College Problems | 10/15/1947 | See Source »

...Staunton, Va., City Manager W. Guy Ancell hoped that, by raising the water level in the city's North River dam, he could save the $300,000 it would cost to build a new reservoir. So he tried bombing cumulus clouds with dry ice. But no rain fell. All that happened was that citizens started calling him "Old Rain-in-the Face" and an elderly constituent sternly advised him to "leave God's work alone and straighten out the traffic mess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Oct. 6, 1947 | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

They heard Kenney predict a "ground swell of progressive political activity which will come from the west. Students and veterans will form its reservoir of political workers" Kenney said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Liberals Discard Plans For New Organization | 10/3/1947 | See Source »

...comment fiercely on each other's origin and the United Nations becomes snarled in a welter of tedious recriminations, a vicious behind-the-scenes economic battle comes far closer to splitting the East and West than any so-called ideological warfare. Iran, keystone of an important Anglo-American oil reservoir, is the stage for an oil dispute that threatens to boil over momentarily. Skittish over Russian expansion towards the Persian Gulf, the United States has influenced Iran to disavow a proposed oil-rights contract with Russia in a move that has Moscow frothing. This most recent indication of a return...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bubble, Bubble, Oil and Trouble | 10/2/1947 | See Source »

Died. Dr. Emily Hickman, 66, professor of history at New Jersey College for Women, lifelong crusader for world peace, member of the U.S. delegation to the United Nations conference at San Francisco; when her auto swerved and plunged into a reservoir; in Lincolndale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 23, 1947 | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

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