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  • noun a large dam built in 1933 on the Colorado River in Nevada

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Examples

  • That's why I can't remember plotina; what we call the Hoover Dam, the Russians would call the Hoover GES.

    languagehat.com: TRANSLATION PROBLEMS. 2004

  • Thus the name Hoover Dam was given to the Boulder Canyon project.

    Hoover and Truman - Chapter 5: Not Quite Friends 1948

  • Then out west in Nevada there was the creation of Boulder Dam, later to be called Hoover Dam to the anger of many who thought that if any name was to be attached to the impressive project that it should have been California's progressive Republican Senator Hiram Johnson, who had worked long and hard to make the project a reality.

    OpEdNews 2010

  • First called Hoover Dam, after the Republican who was president when the project began, the designation suddenly changed to Boulder Dam after the election of Roosevelt, a Democrat, in

    chicagotribune.com - News 2010

  • Then out west in Nevada there was the creation of Boulder Dam, later to be called Hoover Dam to the anger of many who thought that if any name was to be attached to the impressive project that it should have been California's progressive Republican Senator Hiram Johnson, who had worked long and hard to make the project a reality.

    Political Cortex Political Cortex 2010

  • Nevada has developed its own 'Xeriscape' energy resources, and our lifestyles are negatively impacting the one resource that all Arizona, the Hoover Dam is a symbol of human engineering might.

    WN.com - Articles related to U.S. airline industry once again goes under scrutiny 2009

  • It's like calling Hoover Dam, the "Really Big Dam."

    ArchivesBlogs 2009

  • Arizona, the Hoover Dam is a symbol of human engineering might.

    WN.com - Articles related to Dead Sea needs world help to stay alive 2009

  • As for supporting socialism, Ike cited the Hoover Dam and asserted that the only way the United States had ever been able to develop such projects had been “through the instrumentality of the Government and Government financing.”

    Eisenhower 1956 David A. Nichols 2011

  • + Hoover Dam made Las Vegas possible, built by the Mob after gambling legalized for the dam workers

    Robert David Steele: Water: Soul of the Earth, Mirror of Our Collective Souls Robert David Steele 2011

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