Word: reservoir
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...body of the M.I.T. freshman who was lost in an initiation stunt a week ago was found yesterday in the Cambridge Reservoir, by a team of skin divers...
...case in point was the Aswan Dam, which would harness the Nile, provide the parched areas of Egypt with the largest man-made reservoir in the world (and, in fact, do as much for the Egyptian economy as all public works since 1900 have done for the U.S. economy). Highlights of the briefing...
...freedom and the American experiment. This is a very serious situation, serious in view of the destiny of man, and so grave that one wonders . . . whether the world's intellectuals have not already cast their vote against freedom . . . "If the American intellectual were clearly aware of the reservoir of hope which his country represents for the entire world, would he not carry his country's conception of man to a waiting world? . . . Would it be fanciful or absurd or unjust to imagine that certain intellectuals might feel themselves touched to the quick, personally insulted or personally revolted...
...important river systems, the Sacramento and the San Joaquin, great dams such as Shasta, Folsom, Friant and Pine Flat curbed angry water that might have caused infinitely more damage and death. At flood's height, more than 200,000 cubic feet of water a second poured into the reservoir back of the Sacramento's Shasta Dam, which shrank the downstream rush to only 16,000 cubic feet a second, saving the rich Sacramento Valley...
...power lies in their subsidiaries-Columbia's Community Concerts, and National's Civic Concert Service-which between them have organized local civic associations in some 1,200 communities in 48 states. These groups act as local sponsors for the big agency artists, thus providing a huge reservoir of regular prepaid music consumers. Columbia's artists take about $3.2 million and N.C.A.C.'s about $1.3 million a year from the operation...