Word: stem
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...hundred expert oil wranglers, white-slickered, steel-helmeted, sought to stem the flow by capping it with a hurriedly forged 3,000-lb. steel cone known as a "Christmas tree." Many-valved, it was designed to shut down on the escaping oil little by little. But the white figures could remain near the huge yellow plumes of spurted oil only a few minutes at a time; the work progressed slowly. Only after a three-day struggle did they screw their giant nipple into place and throttle nature's deluge. Leading the labor was the well's owner, Fred...
...years before the war college was the training ground of the gentleman and the scholar; it has become today the stamping ground for the masses. In an attempt to stem this deluge of mediocrity universities have stiffened their entrance requirements and bolstered up the standard of their curriculums. As a system of restriction this has been relatively successful and it has also lent weight and respect to a diploma, but it has rendered the task of the secondary school infinitely more difficult. As Frederick Winsor pointed out in the recently published minutes of the Harvard Alumni Association all boys must...
...still also hold that public welfare demands the maintenance and strengthening of our independent unit banking system wherever its services are economically justifiable. However, the march of events in the last few years seems to draw us irresistibly toward some modification of our banking structure. . . . We cannot stem the tide of economic events by passing hostile resolutions or by mere appeals for still more legislation. . . ." And there was irony too in the fact that head of the resolutions committee was Max B. Nahm of Bowling Green, Ky., who last year was an eloquent orator against branchbanking...
...Imperial War Graves Commission will guard and protect it forever as a national monument. Sadly Donor Calder admitted that in the intervening years tourists have snitched from Hill No. 60 nearly everything snitchable. Meanwhile what was David Lloyd George doing last week? Age cannot sap his energy nor custom stem the torrent of his words and plans. In London he went to his barber, emerged in a new and startling nakedness shingled & shorn of the traditional Lloyd Georgian mop. Spruce as ever he addressed a Liberal rally at Stowmarket-nothing special, just all in the year's work...
...Naturally the delegates on the floor were quieter than their friends in the gallery, but the Congress's trend was distinctly leftward. Neither Congress Chairman John Beard (a fusty old ex-insurance canvasser) nor the Labor Government's representative Home Secretary John Robert Clynes seemed able to stem the drift. In the end square-shouldered Ernest Bevin, fat, rumbling-voiced, forceful Secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union, emerged as the hero of the current Congress session...